Spydrone all over USA
After spending the summer in houston, spydrones are now country wide. Available at a store near you!
Spydrone all over USA
After spending the summer in houston, spydrones are now country wide. Available at a store near you!
I can't find anything about this that isn't written by people who don't have a ridiculous axe to grind.
The text of the bill that I found is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr658enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr658enr.pdf
It doesn't mention anything called a Wide Area Aerial Surveillance System. The only mention of unmanned aircraft is in relation to finally getting around to making laws about flying them in US airspace.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I can't find anything about this that isn't written by people who don't have a ridiculous axe to grind.The text of the bill that I found is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr658enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr658enr.pdf
It doesn't mention anything called a Wide Area Aerial Surveillance System. The only mention of unmanned aircraft is in relation to finally getting around to making laws about flying them in US airspace.
No surprise there I knew sooner or later this would happen.
Seriously? Lol...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all#pagebreak
In Afghanistan, the U.S. use of drone surveillance has grown so rapidly that it has created a glut of video material to be analyzed.
The legislation would order the FAA, before the end of the year, to expedite the process through which it authorizes the use of drones by federal, state and local police and other agencies. The FAA currently issues certificates, which can cover multiple flights by more than one aircraft in a particular area, on a case-by-case basis.
The Department of Homeland Security is the only federal agency to discuss openly its use of drones in domestic airspace.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency within the department, operates nine drones, variants of the CIA’s feared Predator. The aircraft, which are flown remotely by a team of 80 fully qualified pilots, are used principally for border and counternarcotics surveillance under four long-term FAA certificates.
Officials say they can be used on a short-term basis for a variety of other public-safety and emergency-management missions if a separate certificate is issued for that mission.
“It’s not all about surveillance,” Mr. Aftergood said.
Homeland Security has deployed drones to support disaster relief operations. Unmanned aircraft also could be useful for fighting fires or finding missing climbers or hikers, he added.
The FAA has issued hundreds of certificates to police and other government agencies, and a handful to research institutions to allow them to fly drones of various kinds over the United States for particular missions.
The agency said it issued 313 certificates in 2011 and 295 of them were still active at the end of the year, but the FAA refuses to disclose which agencies have the certificates and what their purposes are.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the FAA to obtain records of the certifications.
“We need a list so we can ask [each agency], ‘What are your policies on drone use? How do you protect privacy? How do you ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment?’ ” Ms. Lynch said.
“Currently, the only barrier to the routine use of drones for persistent surveillance are the procedural requirements imposed by the FAA for the issuance of certificates,” said Amie Stepanovich, national security counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a research center in Washington.
The Department of Transportation, the parent agency of the FAA, has announced plans to streamline the certification process for government drone flights this year, she said.
“We are looking at our options” to oppose that, she added.
Section 332 of the new FAA legislation also orders the agency to develop a system for licensing commercial drone flights as part of the nation’s air traffic control system by 2015.
The agency must establish six flight ranges across the country where drones can be test-flown to determine whether they are safe for travel in congested skies.
Representatives of the fast-growing unmanned aircraft systems industry say they worked hard to get the provisions into law.
“It sets deadlines for the integration of [the drones] into the national airspace,” said Gretchen West, executive vice president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, an industry group.
She said drone technology is new to the FAA.
The legislation, which provides several deadlines for the FAA to report progress to Congress, “will move the [drones] issue up their list of priorities,” Ms. West said.
Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
the music makes this seem important
Derp
Originally posted by Mairuzu
Seriously? Lol...http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all#pagebreak
So then it's exactly what I was thinking, baseless speculation and outright lies.
much like some other recent outrages (SOPA, PIPA, NDAA), this really just seems to be the government codifying powers it already has...
Originally posted by focus4chumps
probably because its all completely false.
this happens too often. people read/see something on a web page so it must be true.
Source to it being false? What exactly do you claim is false?
Originally posted by inimalist
much like some other recent outrages (SOPA, PIPA, NDAA), this really just seems to be the government codifying powers it already has...
Well no shit lol. Its already been known that these drones were already used by military and certain law enforcements.
You guys sound mad lol
Originally posted by Mairuzu
Well no shit lol. Its already been known that these drones were already used by military and certain law enforcements.
if this is common knowledge, then what are we discussing?
As far as I can tell, they aren't talking about allowing armed drones... From what I have read, they seem to be effective in certain law enforcement situations, such as the cow thieves thing.
lol, if you are insinuating that America is risking having armed drones kill civilians within US borders... the reason they use drones is because it is hard to get at these individuals... people living in the united states really wouldn't be that difficult to kill with much more mundane things, like a swat team or sniper.
also, I can't see Ron Paul being against private corporations being allowed to have drones... has he come out against CCTVs then too?
Privacy issues. More ways for enforcement to screw you over with traffic tickets more so than they already do now especially here in California. Soon to have the capability of seeing through walls. All for private use as well. Bit by bit our privacy is being shattered I would say.
Just more bullshit added by government to screw you over. We already see abuse by tsa agents and their xray technologies.
How many will have weapons applied to them? Seeing as it was one of the main purposes for military use. Seems to have killed a civilian almost every time it was used in the middle east. Doesn't seem like something this country needs.
I also see good uses for it, don't get me wrong. But when has this world ever been full of flowers and fairytales