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Originally posted by
gsfanatic
Depends a lot on what they're used for. Day to day surveillance gets kind of shaky, but it could prove quite useful for finding lost hikers and the like
Yeah, I can see their usefulness and I'm in favor of their being used for search and rescue, as well as for apprehending criminals and preventing crimes. And surveillance of criminal suspects - with a warrant - would also be fine by me.
What I DON'T want to happen is their widespread use for warrantless surveillance of ordinary citizens - which is perfectly legal in most places today. That's just too
1984.
The bottom line is that we need to get legal constraints in place ASAP - before these drones are deployed everywhere. Preferably, this will happen on a national level, but right now, Congress is so divided, they would have a hard time passing a bill that declared the sky to be blue!