Articles Tagged with ''drone security''

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, according to flight logs recently released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group.

The Federal Aviation Administration released a “road map” for letting drones share the skies with civilian aircraft by 2014.

More than half of the general U.S. public support any applications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, such as drones.

Barrack Obama defended the use of drones and announced more narrow parameters for the use of them to kill terrorists overseas.

The University of Alabama at Huntsville will use unmanned aerial devices to help police monitor, and supposedly protect, students on campus.

 A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield" that might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said that surveillance drones could play a role in providing security at next year's Boston Marathon.

Students at the University of Missouri Journalism School, in Columbia, Mo., are now taking courses how to use drones to report stories.

34 colleges and universities applied for drone permits in 2012, mostly for academic purposes, but privacy activists are concerned. 

With potential applications in crop spraying, watering and land surveys, farmers might quickly overtake law enforcement as the robots' next big market.