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March 18, 2013

Domestic Drones Stir Imaginations, and Concerns

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Published: Monday, 18 Mar 2013 | 11:14 AM ET
By: Matthew L. Wald

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On the pilot’s computer screen, planted at ground level a few yards from the airport runway here, the data streaming across the display tracked an airplane at 1,300 feet above a small city on the coast, making perfect circles at 150 miles per hour.

To the pilot’s right, a sensor operator was aiming a camera on the plane to pan, tilt and zoom in a search among the houses on the ground for people who had been reported missing.

On his screen, cartoonlike human figures appeared in a gathering around a camp fire between the houses.

“There they are,” Andrew Regenhard, the pilot and a student, said in a flat tone that seemed out of place with a successful rescue mission.

http://news.feedzilla.com/ca/stories/business/asia/292169287?client_source=feed&format=rss&sb=1

March 17, 2013

Anti-drone Devices For Sale: Military Contractor Claims To Have Counter-UAV Technology

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Domestic drones will soon be soaring through the sky left and right, but a company in Oregon with ties to the US military is marketing a service that they say will make sure private property is safe from surveillance.

The team at one-month-old Domestic Drone Countermeasures doesn’t go into many specifics, but says they can offer services that will make sure Americans aren’t being spied on by hovering eyes in the sky.Post image for Anti-drone Devices For Sale: Military Contractor Claims To Have Counter-UAV Technology

“If there’s going to be private and commercial drones, there will be people who want to safeguard information,” DDC’s Tim Faucett told Portland’s KOIN 6 News last month. “Think about industrial espionage, or companies that don’t want drones around their facilities.”

http://libertycrier.com/tech/anti-drone-devices-for-sale-military-contractor-claims-to-have-counter-uav-technology/

March 16, 2013

Steven Greenhut: U.S. skies grow militarized

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As domestic government agencies scramble to send up unmanned aircraft to patrol and monitor, concerns about the rights of those being watched are being left behind.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/government-499980-drone-society.html

August 10, 2012

Domestic Spying: Mini-Drone Can Watch Neighbors From Above

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WASHINGTON (CBS) – Your neighbors’ fences are no longer tall enough.

While President Obama takes flak for the US’s use of unmanned drone attacks abroad, there is a smaller, smartphone-controlled drone hovering above urban rooftops and suburban backyards: The Parrot AR Drone 2.0.

The Parrot AR Drone 2.0, listed on Amazon just below $300, is the best way to live out one’s fantasy of being a spy. The miniature drone is controlled through your iPhone or iPad and features multiple sensors, including a hi-definition front-facing 720-pixel camera and a vertical camera looking straight down from the bottom of the miniature quadricopter (four propellers).

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/domestic-spying-mini-drone-can-watch-neighbors-from-above/

June 4, 2012

Massive experimental drone takes to skies above Edwards AFB (Video)

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A massive experimental drone designed by Boeing Co. engineers to fly for up to four days at a time completed its first test flight above the Mojave Desert at Edwards Air Force Base.

The drone, called Phantom Eye, and its hydrogen-fueled propulsion system have the potential to vastly expand the reach of military spy craft. The longest that reconnaissance planes can stay in the air now is about 30 hours.

  • The Phantom Eye, Boeing's unmanned aerial vehicle, made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base.
The Phantom Eye, Boeing’s unmanned aerial vehicle, made its first… (Bob Ferguson / Boeing Co. )
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/04/business/la-fi-mo-boeing-spy-drone-phantom-20120604
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