Local Police Receive DHS Grant for Drones to Use in Crime Search and Crowd Control
By Nicholas West Police departments around the U.S. continue doing their best to acquire drones for a range of uses. This move is buoyed by…
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Police Use Drones To Spy On Suspicious People At “Potential Crime Scenes”
By MassPrivateI For years, law enforcement has been claiming that drones will only be used for natural disasters, crime scene investigations, car accidents and rescue…
US Killed at Least 14 Civilians in a Country Most Americans Don’t Know the US is Bombing
By Derrick Broze A new report from Amnesty International reveals that U.S. air strikes from aircraft and drones have increased in Somalia, resulting in the…
Trump Cancels Report on Civilians Killed by US Drone Strikes
By Jake Johnson (CD) — In his latest attack on transparency, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a rule requiring U.S. intelligence officials to publicly disclose the number of…
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…
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….