"If you're concerned about it, maybe there's a reason we should be flying over you, right?" said Douglas McDonald, the company's director of special operations and president of a local chapter of the unmanned vehicle trade group.Who is this "we", I wonder? Big business in a league with unsupervised law enforcement agencies?
Speaking of which:
"We are not out there to abuse people's rights, but at the same time we're out there to protect public safety," said Grand Forks Sheriff Robert Rost. "The public perception is that Big Brother is going to be snooping on them and that is not the case at all. It will not be misused."There you go - a cop says people's rights will not be abused, and you should believe him, and if not, then a drone might make its way to your house.
But some people will always have privacy:
And for all the assurances, there is much that isn't said or revealed. Some of the equipment used by the university can't be seen by the public because of federal privacy rules. Although legal, anyone photographing outside the base can find themselves being questioned by county, state and Air Force law enforcement. When asked how many times U.S. Border Protection has dispatched drones at the request of local police, a spokeswoman for the agency said it does not keep those figures.No privacy for individual citizens, but complete "privacy" for the government, law enforcement, and corporations. Winning the future!
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