Military, Police Drones May Lead To Supreme Court Ethics Fight -- Bloomberg
The large-scale deployment of drones by the U.S. military to track and kill enemies, as well as the use of the unmanned planes by police forces for surveillance, may lead to legal disputes about the rights to self-defense and to privacy, according to an article published today in the journal Nature.
The use of drones is “a Supreme Court case waiting to happen,” wrote Peter W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, quoting an unnamed U.S. federal district court judge.
The U.S. Defense Department operates more than 7,000 aerial drones and 12,000 unmanned ground systems, Singer wrote, and the Miami and Ogden, Utah, police departments have sought licenses to operate surveillance drones.
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My Comment: It is only a question of time before lawyers start to question past legal guidelines and decisions, and to apply them to today's legal and political world .... hmmmm .... I guess that time is rapidly approaching.
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