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Is An Invisible Wonder Woman Plane Spying On You? Privacy Advocates File Suit To Force DOT’s Release Of Domestic Drone Info
The Federal Aviation Administration has authorized the use of hundreds of drones in U.S. airspace in recent years but offered few details on who is operating them.
This week, a privacy advocacy group filed suit to force the Department of Transportation to release its records publicly.
“Drones give the government and other unmanned aircraft operators a powerful new surveillance tool to gather extensive and intrusive data on Americans’ movements and activities,” said Jennifer Lynch, attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Northern California. “As the government begins to make policy decisions about the use of these aircraft, the public needs to know more about how and why these drones are being used to surveil United States citizens……….……MORE
