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Posted on Apr 4, 2006

The Congress hears from police agencies that envision using unmanned military drones for surveillance—in one troubling example,  high above American cities.


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Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists.

Now UAVs may be landing in the United States.

A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.

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By R. A. Earl, April 4, 2006 at 10:34 pm Link to this comment
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As a senior I watch in astonishment and horror as our society morphs from human to cyborg, and thank my lucky stars I’m not a teenager challenged to navigate the suffocating, monitored passages ahead.

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By JohnthePropangandist, April 4, 2006 at 11:53 am Link to this comment
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Yes and with the new iPlant, our Corporate owners will easily control us as well.

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By rex, April 4, 2006 at 10:24 am Link to this comment
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UAV’s are just one part of the surveillance picture. They can be dispatched to track specific individuals or objects within the already existing virtual geospatial maps of the
United States with GPS precision.
These maps have hundreds of layers of infomation obtained by data mining.
All surveillance cameras in the entire country can be monitored by image mining software that anayzes millions of pictures per second to find anyone or anything, with the sole unexplanable exception being Osama bin Laden.
George Orwell didn’t know the half of it.

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