Eye In The Sky: Rise Of Domestic Spy Planes Exposed...

[paulitician]

Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.


There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.

Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.

But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles. It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.

There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically. As well as active locations, the FAA also revealed 16 sites where licences to use spy planes have expired and four where authorisations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail County, Minnesota

The authority revealed the information after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Electronic Frontier Foundation. Its website hosts an interactive map that allows the user to zoom in to the area around where they live to see if any sites are nearby.

However, the FAA is yet to reveal what kinds of drones might be based at any of these locations. The agency says it will release this data late


Read more: Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of killer spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S. | Mail Online
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

 

[konradv]

Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.


There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.

Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.

But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles. It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.

There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically. As well as active locations, the FAA also revealed 16sites where licences to use spy planes have expired and four where authorisations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail County, Minnesota

The authority revealed the information after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Electronic Frontier Foundation. Its website hosts an interactive map that allows the user to zoom in to the area around where they live to see if any sites are nearby.

However, the FAA is yet to reveal what kinds of drones might be based at any of these locations. The agency says it will release this data late

Read more: Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of killer spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S. | Mail Online
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

What's your point? There have been helicopters patrolling the skies of most major cities for decades, not to mention that there are other uses for aerial reconnaissance besides spying on people. What's astonishing about universities having them? Where do you think stuff like that gets developed, anyway?

 

[paulitician]

Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.


There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.

Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.

But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles. It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.

There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically. As well as active locations, the FAA also revealed 16sites where licences to use spy planes have expired and four where authorisations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail County, Minnesota

The authority revealed the information after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Electronic Frontier Foundation. Its website hosts an interactive map that allows the user to zoom in to the area around where they live to see if any sites are nearby.

However, the FAA is yet to reveal what kinds of drones might be based at any of these locations. The agency says it will release this data late

Read more: Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of killer spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S. | Mail Online
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

What's your point? There have been helicopters patrolling the skies of most major cities for decades, not to mention that there are other uses for aerial reconnaissance besides spying on people. What's astonishing about universities having them? Where do you think stuff like that gets developed, anyway?

Yes, spying on your Citizens is good. Man, what happened to our Country? Why are so many such loyal Goose Steppers? What a bleak future for our Country.

 

[BlindBoo]

Look up in the sky...

Is it a Bird?

Is it a Plane.

Yes! Well, it's an unmanned sky writing drone writing......

"FAUXRAGEOUS"

 

[paulitician]

Looks like the Corporations are getting into the Spy Drone Business too. What a Country.

 

[paulitician]

Look up in the sky...

Is it a Bird?

Is it a Plane.

Yes! Well, it's an unmanned sky writing drone writing......

"FAUXRAGEOUS"

Why i am not surprised you're not outraged? Carry on, little Goose Stepper.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Of course they would fall in line when a democrat was in power.

 

[paulitician]

Of course they would fall in line when a democrat was in power.

Yup.

 

[BlindBoo]

Look up in the sky...

Is it a Bird?

Is it a Plane.

Yes! Well, it's an unmanned sky writing drone writing......

"FAUXRAGEOUS"

Why i am not surprised you're not outraged? Carry on, little Goose Stepper.

Because you're a specious moroonie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

 

[paulitician]

Look up in the sky...

Is it a Bird?

Is it a Plane.

Yes! Well, it's an unmanned sky writing drone writing......

"FAUXRAGEOUS"

Why i am not surprised you're not outraged? Carry on, little Goose Stepper.

Because you're a specious moroonie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

Nah, you're just a duped little Goose Stepper. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[BlindBoo]

Why i am not surprised you're not outraged? Carry on, little Goose Stepper.

Because you're a specious moroonie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

Nah, you're just a duped little Goose Stepper. Nothing more, nothing less.

Certainly there are concerns about saftey and privacy issues (like are addresssed in the link) why not look at those in a reasonable way instead of pretending to be a specious Chicken Little and crying fowl!

The sky is crawling,........ the sky is crawling.

 

[zzzz]

Look up in the sky...

Is it a Bird?

Is it a Plane.

Yes! Well, it's an unmanned sky writing drone writing......

"FAUXRAGEOUS"

Why i am not surprised you're not outraged? Carry on, little Goose Stepper.

Because you're a specious moroonie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

Once the legislators start getting spied upon in the backyards of their mansions something will probably take place. But the government always had right to to spy on citizens from the air, this opens it to everyone, even that neighborhood stalker.

 

[paulitician]

Because you're a specious moroonie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/t...the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Mr. Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies. Flying drones for commercial purposes, the police said, violated federal aviation rules.

“I was paying the bills with this,” said Mr. Gárate, who recently gave an unpaid demonstration of his drone in this Southern California suburb.

His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

American courts have generally permitted surveillance of private property from public airspace. But scholars of privacy law expect that the likely proliferation of drones will force Americans to re-examine how much surveillance they are comfortable with.

“As privacy law stands today, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy while out in public, nor almost anywhere visible from a public vantage,” said Ryan Calo, director of privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. “I don’t think this doctrine makes sense, and I think the widespread availability of drones will drive home why to lawmakers, courts and the public.”

Nah, you're just a duped little Goose Stepper. Nothing more, nothing less.

Certainly there are concerns about saftey and privacy issues (like are addresssed in the link) why not look at those in a reasonable way instead of pretending to be a specious Chicken Little and crying fowl!

The sky is crawling,........ the sky is crawling.

Goose Stepping morons like you are destroying our Nation. You're the problem.

 

[BlindBoo]

Nah, you're just a duped little Goose Stepper. Nothing more, nothing less.

Certainly there are concerns about saftey and privacy issues (like are addresssed in the link) why not look at those in a reasonable way instead of pretending to be a specious Chicken Little and crying fowl!

The sky is crawling,........ the sky is crawling.

Goose Stepping morons like you are destroying our Nation. You're the problem.

Fear mongering distracts you from any real discussion.

 

[Big Fitz]

I know very very frequently they do aerial surveillance at the WI/MN I94 border crossing for some reason. Just east and south of the highway somebody's on station up there.

 

[Synthaholic]

Looks like the Corporations are getting into the Spy Drone Business too. What a Country.

You wingnuts love corporations.

Until you don't.

 

[Synthaholic]

Looks like another Paulitician FAIL thread.

 

[paulitician]

Looks like the Corporations are getting into the Spy Drone Business too. What a Country.

You wingnuts love corporations.

Until you don't.

So you approve of Corporations getting into the Spy Drone business?

 

[paulitician]

Looks like another Paulitician FAIL thread.

Yeah, like you actually read the post. Your attention span has gotten shorter & shorter, so i highly doubt you bothered to read the post. All Citizens should be outraged over this stuff. It doesn't matter which Political Party you cheerlead for. This stuff is much much bigger than that.

 

[Synthaholic]

Looks like the Corporations are getting into the Spy Drone Business too. What a Country.

You wingnuts love corporations.

Until you don't.

So you approve of Corporations getting into the Spy Drone business?

No, but I'm a Liberal. I believe in personal privacy. In the bedroom, in the airport, in your home, on your property, in your life decisions.