You are a reality star. You might think no one sees you in your fenced-in backyard grilling hamburgers in your boxer shorts. But government drones equipped with HD cameras are filming a new reality show starring you: “Drone Dynasty.” In popular reality shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” we essentially ... MORE
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Katie Kieffer: Staring In Drone Dynasty
You are a reality star. You might think no one sees you in your fenced-in backyard grilling hamburgers in your boxer shorts. But government drones equipped with HD cameras are filming a new reality show starring you: “Drone Dynasty.” In popular reality shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” we essentially ... MORESheldon Richman: Don't Trust The Government On Drones
Obama's targeted killings set a dangerous precedent. “Covert” drone warfare requires a level of confidence in politicians that they will never deserve. In the Kentucky
Resolutions, the 1798 protest against the
Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in
[politicians] to silence our fears ... MORESara Sorcher: When Can The Government Kill Americans?
The White House Won't Say. Sen. Ron Wyden has spent two years demanding that the Obama
administration share its legal opinions justifying the targeted
assassinations of suspected American terrorists abroad. After all, as a
member of the Intelligence Committee, the Oregon Democrat is entitled
(and cleared) to know. How can his panel ... MORE
Dustin Hurst: Bipartisan Opposition To Domestic Drones
Parties join forces to curtail surveillance society. Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders—in car chases, to monitor wildfires, or for simple surveillance—is uniting political parties and people more often at odds. Their concern: the widespread use of drones ... MOREFlorida Senate Panel Votes To Ban Spying With Drones
One state's stand for citizen privacy. A Florida Senate panel says police should be banned from using drones to spy on citizens. A bill (SB 92) that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from gathering evidence or other information flew through the Criminal Justice Committee with a unanimous vote Tuesday. It also would ban ... MOREKatie 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
Allyson Mitchell: Obama Making Up Drone Rules As He Goes
Americans need transparency of conventional warfare. The Obama administration has not yet answered concerns regarding the
secrecy, legality and efficacy of the drone warfare program. During the
presidential elections, to avoid leaving business unfinished, a
last-minute effort surfaced in the White House to create a secret rule ... MOREDrone Crashes Mount At Civilian Airports Overseas
by Craig Whitlock. The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start. An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt,
flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International
Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4. He sent the ... MOREDHS Wants To Double Predator Drone Fleet Within The U.S.
Despite safety and privacy concerns. Despite renewed criticism from both parties in Congress that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to US citizens—and a report from its own Inspector General recommending to stop buying them—the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated it wants to more
than double its fleet of Predator ... MOREThomas Sowell: 'Cooling Out' The Voters
Playing the electorate as chumps. Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Smile, The Government Is Watching
Next generation identification. “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement was scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984. Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state’s steady incursions into our lives. It’s ... MOREJoan Lowy: Privacy Worries On Domestic Drone Use
Drones to be routinely deployed over the next 3 years. More than a third of Americans worry their privacy will suffer if drones like those used to spy on U.S. enemies overseas become the latest police tool for tracking suspected criminals at home, according to an Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll. Congress has directed ... MORE
Elisabeth Meinecke: Domestic Drones And Spying
Should you be worried? There are two types of people that have anything to fear from domestic drones: those who have done something wrong … and those who haven’t. In the next 10 years, there will be a projected 15,000 drones, also known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems, in the U.S. This projection is cited by the Joint Planning and ... MOREEd Morrissey: Ending Privacy As We Know It
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s Nano-Drone! A new report from the Congressional Research Service warns that privacy may become a thing of the past in the approach Drone Age, and it may not just be the government taking a look down from the sky. The technology that allows us to fight a war with less risk also creates ... MOREJason 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 ... MOREThe Number Of Americans Spied Upon Is Too High To Count
by Andrew Napolitano. Gazillions. That's the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was ... MORE
Domestic Drones: Security And Privacy Game Changer
The security and privacy issues are monumental. Do you recall when researchers from the University of Texas hijacked a drone via GPS spoofing? Congress does and held a House Homeland Security Oversight Subcommittee hearing called Using Unmanned Aerial Systems Within the Homeland: Security Game Changer? Professor Todd Humphreys ... MOREVIDEO: Drones Can Be Hacked And Turned Into Missles
While grandma is frisked at the airport, terrorists may have drones as weapons.
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