Wanted "Drone" Poster Artist Discusses How He Punked the NYPD. Www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/12/14 drones bennett/1214_drones_bennett.pdf. EDITORIAL: Drones over America. Big Sis is watching. Aerial surveillance drones designed to protect the nation’s borders and fight terrorists overseas are turning their electronic eyes on Americans here at home. While gathering intelligence on the activities of suspected lawbreakers, Uncle Sam risks invading the privacy of the law-abiding. A bright line must be drawn between surveillance for legitimate law enforcement purposes and illicit spying that violates Americans’ constitutional right to be left alone.
The threat comes from Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security, which is deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, to assist local authorities with airborne surveillance. Street Artist Charged with 56 Counts for Punking NYPD with Drone Poster. Street artist Essan Attia is being charged with 56 criminal counts after planting dozens of mock public service posters around New York, advertising the NYPD's use of drones to monitor civilians.
He was arrested in New York last week after being tracked down by an ill-humored police force. Attia's arrest followed on a video interview the artist gave with the arts and culture website Animal New York, in which he described some of his motivations—including his libertarian political leanings—and how he pulled off the stunt: As Reason.com reports: On September 16, 29-year-old “Essam” and a group of friends blanketed lower Manhattan with posters designed to look like official New York Police Department signage. “Drones: Protection When You Least Expect It,” read the slogan below simple ideograms of families running from unmanned aerial vehicles. Photo by Gawker Photo by Marcus Santos / New York Daily News. Markey, Barton: Privacy Protections, Transparency a “Blind Spot” in FAA Oversight of Non-Military Domestic Drones. FAA Response to Markey & Barton letter.
The DIY Kid-tracking Drone. On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son 400 meters down the hill to the bus stop.
Last winter, I fantasized about sitting at my computer while a camera-equipped drone followed him overhead. So this year, I set out to build one. For the basic airframe, I selected a quadcopter design for its maneuverability and ability to hover. Drones: A Look at the Latest Technology - Interactive Feature. Joint exercise tests UAV sense-and-avoid technology. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), a not-for-profit research and development organization and a university completed two weeks of flight testing "sense and avoid" technology that could help unmanned aircraft better integrate into the national air transportation system some day.
The MITRE Corporation and the University of North Dakota (UND) developed automatic sense and avoid computer software algorithms that were uploaded onto a NASA Langley Research Center general aviation aircraft, said the group on Oct. 2. The NASA Langley Cirrus SR-22 flew 147 maneuvers during 39 hours of flight tests in airspace near the Grand Forks International Airport. Push for more drones in U.S. raises questions. WASHINGTON — The federal government is rushing to open America's skies to tens of thousands of drones — pushed to do so by a law championed by manufacturers of the unmanned aircraft.
Yet questions remain about their potential to invade privacy and about their reliability, as two incidents on the U.S. Put a policy leash on police drones. The use and deployment of new law-enforcement technology needs to be grounded in a respect for the legal rights of those they are ultimately intended to help protect.
New, dazzling, available and subsidized are not the criteria for police and sheriff departments to start flying drones or taking fingerprints at a traffic stop. Protesters turned up at an informational hearing hosted by the Seattle Police Department to introduce the public to an unmanned-aerial vehicle SPD is eager to use. The camera systems no doubt have their advantages in chasing bad guys, looking for missing persons or surveilling emergencies. Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State. March 4, 2012 | Like this article?
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The ACLU testified today before a House field forum examining drone technology and the Fourth Amendment at Rice University called by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.). Drones have gotten a lot of attention lately – U.S. law enforcement agencies are eager to get their hands on them while civil libertarians are concerned about the potential threat to privacy. The panel for today’s hearing, which was held in conjunction with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, included representatives from across the board, with witnesses from the advocacy, law enforcement, and academic worlds. Aero Tech Town. Detroit City Airport has established an industrial R&D cluster to develop the next generation of aircraft, including civilian drones.
By Tom Murray and R.J. King Illustration by Jacqui Oakley The Coleman A. Young International Airport on Detroit’s east side has two runways, a passenger terminal, a U.S.