What’s That Buzzing Overhead? It’s An OSHA Drone
By Walter Olson “That buzzing noise over a construction site could be an OSHA drone searching for safety violations,” notes Littler Mendelson lawyer Tammy McCutchen…
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Russia Tests Hypersonic “Avangard” State Of The Art Projectile; And Nuclear Capable Underwater Drone
By Aaron Kesel Russia has tested its hypersonic weapons that Activist Post reported Putin had teased just last week. The hypersonic weapon’s name is Avangard,…
Alameda and Contra Costa County Sheriffs Flew Drones Over Protests
By Dave Maass and Mike Katz-Lacabe At the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in October, presenters from the Orlando Police Department issued a…
FAA’s “Integration Pilot UAS Program” Is Really A National Police Surveillance Drone Program
By MassPrivateI This year was full of many disturbing stories, like the one about Bloomberg’s role-playing workshops being used to convince the public to accept…
DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities By 2030 – At The Latest
By Nicholas West Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable…
DARPA Wants Drone Swarms To Master Urban Operations
By Technocracy News & Trends This is DARPA’s third major push to develop coordinated and autonomous drone swarms, up to 250 per swarm, to be…
Officials Claim Police Drones Will Revitalize Downtown and “create a community connection”
By MassPrivateI If you are having trouble digesting the headline, just imagine how much trouble I am having trying to write about it. In what…
Drones Unleashed to Find Tax Evaders as Greece Sets Disturbing Precedent
By Nicholas West Anyone who is looking to understand exactly what the term “mission creep” means and why privacy advocates warn of its negative impact,…
Has The Era Of Autonomous Warfare Finally Arrived?
By Nicholas West The global arms race for the latest weapons of war is a naturally escalating cycle of countries pursuing ways to dominate the…
New Kentucky Law Puts Limits on Drone Spying, Will Help Thwart Federal Surveillance Program
By Michael Maharrey On Saturday, a Kentucky law went into effect requiring police to get a warrant before engaging in drone surveillance in most situations….
How Long Before Chinese-made Axon Police Drones Start Killing Americans?
By MassPrivateI Not content with police body cams, Axon formerly known as Taser wants to equip police departments with Chinese-made surveillance drones. Three weeks ago,…
Real-Time Drone Surveillance System Is Being Programmed To Detect Violence
By Nicholas West Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable…
Google Quits Drone Program; U.S. Navy Wants Drone Motherships With Help Of A.I.
By Aaron Kesel The U.S. Navy and researchers from Florida Atlantic University are developing a boat for drones (aerial and sub) that can be launched from a…
Sacramento Residents Outraged By Secret Drone Program Spying on Neighborhood
By Nicholas West A group of residents from Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood are expressing their disgust with a secret drone program that has been exposed…