AMERICA - More Evidence That Orwellian 1984 is Already Here, Domestic Drones

So, those of us who are already worried about our privacy now have to add our neighbors to the mix of WHO is violating our privacy.

So are the 'new' Orwellian rules for domestic drones with cameras going to allow citizens to sue for them being used to spy on their back yards WITHOUT a warrant?  Better yet, make such spying a crime?

"Rise of Domestic Drones Draws Questions About Privacy, Limiting Use" PBS Newshour 4/18/2013

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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour):  And we turn now to the subject of drones.  Small unmanned aerial devices outfitted with surveillance equipment can be bought by virtually anyone and flown legally throughout the country.

As Hari Sreenivasan reports, the tiny aircraft are triggering a large debate over acceptable uses of domestic drones and privacy.

WOMAN:  Oh.

WOMAN:  Oh, my God.

HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour):  On a Sunday afternoon, an hour's drive outside the nation's capital, the skies were filled with drones, not the lethal military killing machines we have heard about overseas, but unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, of all shapes and sizes that are legal and flown in the U.S. today.

It was a fly-in by 40 members of the D.C. Area Drone User Group.  Washington resident Timothy Reuter is the group's founder.  It has nearly 300 members.

TIMOTHY REUTER, D.C. Area Drone User Group:  We have a lot of people who are interested in photography.  We have some longtime engineers, some who even work professionally on drone projects.  You have longtime R.C. flyers.

And then you have people like myself who have no engineering background, have never done this before, but are excited by this as a new technology and just want to get started and find a community of people to work with.