AOH :: PT-1323.HTM  Surveillance in the sky: Homeland Security
wants aerial drones with cameras  Surveillance in the sky:
Homeland Security wants aerial drones with cameras Surveillance
in the sky: Homeland Security wants aerial drones with cameras
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have long been used over Iraq
and  Afghanistan. Now local police and Homeland Security want to
use them in  the U.S. for aerial surveillance.  This raises two
interesting issues: privacy and safety. The privacy one  is
familiar to Politech readers. If you have a fleet of UAVs
overhead on  a clear day, they could track when your car leaves
your driveway, where  you go, who you visit, how long you stay,
how fast you drive, and add  all that data to a massive
information store that could be available to  any Fed for the
asking. (Networked terrestrial cameras and facecams  raise
essentially the same issue.)  The safety issue involves sharing
airspace with pilots carrying passengers.  News coverage:
Photos of UAVs:  The Aircraft Owners