We shouldn’t have to fear that our government could use unmanned drones to spy us, right? Unfortunately, advanced technology makes the specter of wide scale backyard surveillance a very real and terrifying possibility.
Yesterday, the Maine State House took a very important step toward protecting these privacy rights by voting in favor of the minority report for LD 236, which would require a warrant before police could use drones to spy on people in most cases.
The vote could not have been more timely.
In Washington D.C., FBI Director Robert Mueller yesterday admitted for the first time that the FBI has been using drones to carry out surveillance within the United States. It's another example, to go with recent NSA spying revelations, of the extraordinary surveillance powers that our government will eagerly adopt unless we enact meaningful congressional oversight and public transparency.
June 20, 2013 - 2:57pm
