Aerial drones have been garnering a lot of attention by privacy advocates lately, and Public Intelligence has compiled a list of known US military bases that employ these drones. The map contains the present and future locations of military bases equipped to deploy aerial drones, but most are so far removed from civilian populations that they are likely just training centers for overseas operations. This map comes just one day after we reported that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked citizens to contribute their local police department’s aerial drone practices to its database.
It’s difficult to separate the stigma of re-purposed war machines from that fact that they are far safer and cheaper to deploy than traditional…
from The Verge – All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3083434/public-intelligence-64-aerial-drone-bases-usa
