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Robert Molko

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The Drones Are Coming! Will The Fourth Amendment Stop The Threat To Our Privacy., Robert Molko Sep 2012

The Drones Are Coming! Will The Fourth Amendment Stop The Threat To Our Privacy., Robert Molko

Robert Molko

The Drones are coming!

Will the Fourth Amendment Stop their Threat to our Privacy?

Local police have begun to use drones and are planning to expand their use of to survey communities for criminal activity.

On February 14, 2012, President Obama signed the “FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012″ into law; it requires the FAA to expedite the process to authorize both public and private use of drones in the national navigable airspace.

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from unreasonable intrusions by the government and we have come to depend on that.

Today, in …