More Drone News - Identifying Armed Civilians

[cjjtulsa]

Looks more and more like the foil helmets may be right. Things are accelerating.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.

Homeland Security's specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they "shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not," meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify "signals interception" technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and "direction finding" technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...estic-surveillance-tech-into-predator-drones/

 

[thegomezclan]

Must be a typo, they must be talking about Russia or China homeland security.

 

[Spata]

Speaking of drones, tptb @ work want me to have 6(2 planes, 2 copters & 2 trucks) fully functioning autonomous mini drones ready by march 29th. fml.

 

[twoguns?]

Are people ...Just now figuring out these are around?
OK... Regular people?

 

[Cinaet]

This is what happens with unfettered bureaucracies. They come up with ridiculous ways to justify their existence, in this case the necessity for law and order.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

They're only releasing all this info now because they've spent the last decade labeling those of us in the know as conspiracy lunatics... Start hoarding aluminum foil

 

[reddog1]

It will never happen here, Reddog.

 

[Spata]

It will never happen here, Reddog.

It'll never happen here, reddog. Never, never, never, NEVAR!!!!!!

 

[SMS]

Dang, you mean these drones should be able to do stuff? Like fly around and focus cameras on stuff we want to see? That's nuts.

I thought they would just fly around with a monkey strapped to them, and when it landed we could ask the monkey what it saw...can't believe they would spend money on cameras and stuff.

 

[reddog1]

Dang, you mean these drones should be able to do stuff? Like fly around and focus cameras on stuff we want to see? That's nuts.

I thought they would just fly around with a monkey strapped to them, and when it landed we could ask the monkey what it saw...can't believe they would spend money on cameras and stuff.

They don't use monkeys goofball.