
“They’re coming: In a few years the skies over the United States will be filled with hundreds if not thousands of drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, doing a variety of tasks — border security, disaster relief, search and rescue, counter-terrorism and looking down on people and streets on behalf of police departments. But just what will they be looking for, and what sophisticated devices will they carry? And how deeply will they peer into the life of the average American?” [And who will be watching the watchers?]
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