Showing posts with label FAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAA. Show all posts

Veronique de Rugy: The Tip Of The Regulatory Iceberg

Crippling innovation speeding the growth of government. In 2014, the government issued 2,400 new regulations, including 27 major rules that may cost $80 billion or more annually. They range from forcing restaurants to list the number of calories in food—even though past experiments have revealed that such measures fail to change     ... MORE

Meet Chuck Schumer, The Next Senate Minority Leader

by Nick Gillespie.     A partial listing of some of things that the NY political hack has tried to ban. It's long been said that the most dangerous place in Washington is between Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a TV camera. With news of the resignation of the historically awful Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the odds are good that Schumer will now ascend  ... MORE

Jose Pagliery: Expect Heavy FAA Drone Regulations

Government rapidly seeks to curb new freedom.  Farmers want drones to survey fields. Wedding photographers want them for moving aerial shots. They might soon need a pilot's license. By year's end, the Federal Aviation Administration will unveil proposed rules that apply to anyone flying a small drone that's even remotely for business   ... MORE

Peter Ferrara: Fight Back! Privatize The FAA

They are really asking for it this time.  If you are an air traveler this week, you might get a dose of how it feels to be deliberately abused by your government to score political points. President Obama and the Democrat Party are so adamantly opposed to any semblance of cuts in government spending that they cannot abide the sequester that ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: True Drone Lies

Superheroes often live double lives.  But so do super-villains. For four years, the Obama administration has been living a double-life regarding drones. Publicly, the president and his leadership tell us they are using drones to protect our borders and promote national security. The administration dismisses challenges to its drone policies as   ... MORE

Jason Koebler: Police To Use Drones Against Citizens

Warrantless surveillance deployed.  Law enforcement agencies that have requested permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly unmanned drones plan to use them for surveillance purposes, according to documents obtained by an Internet freedom organization. "With some exceptions, drone flights in the U.S. have been all about     ... MORE

Joan Lowy: Drones Spark Privacy Fears

Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies?   Predictions that multitudes of unmanned aircraft could be flying here within a decade are raising the specter of a “surveillance society” in which no home or backyard would be off limits to prying eyes overhead. Law enforcement, oil companies, farmers, real estate agents and many others have  ... MORE

Washington Times: Land Of The Drones

Government is gaining ground in the sky. In the Age of Obama, Uncle Sam is watching. High-tech surveillance aircraft once limited to the use of the world’s largest military organizations are now finding their way to local law-enforcement agencies. With the ability to put an eye in the sky over every square inch of U.S. soil, these machines ... MORE

LA Times: Police Wait For FAA Clearance To Use Drones

Law enforcement salivates over prying eyes in the sky. Police departments across the country have bought inexpensive small drone aircraft with cameras to help track drug dealers, find missing children and locate wandering Alzheimer's patients, but federal rules designed to protect the nation's airspace have kept them grounded. That is about to change  ... MORE

Privacy Group Urges Privacy Rules For Domestic Drones

by Mark Rockwell. More than 100 privacy groups, experts and individuals have petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to address the impact of aerial drones in the U.S. as the agency move to implement new rules for the vehicles’ domestic use. President Obama signed a $63.4 billion Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill on Feb. 14 that opens the ... MORE

VIDEO: The Drones Are Coming!


Government is deploying spies in the sky to monitor the American people.

John W. Whitehead: Dawn Of The Drones

Total surveillance state is the path to total control.   “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. It is, under ... MORE

Jennifer Lynch: Are Drones Watching You?

Drones catching on as new police state tool. Today, EFF filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration seeking information on drone flights in the United States. The FAA is the sole entity within the federal government capable of authorizing domestic drone flights, and for too long now, it has failed to release specific and detailed information on .. MORE

Nick Bilton: iPads For Me, But Not For Ye

FAA gives pilots thumbs up, passengers thumbs down.     The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that pilots on American Airlines flights would be allowed to use iPads instead of paper flight manuals in the cockpit starting Friday, as reported by ZDNet, even during takeoff and landing. But passengers are still required to shut down anything with  ... MORE