Don’t shoot down our drones

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Elliot Harmon | EFF Activism Team <action () eff org>
> Date: September 12, 2018 at 7:55:01 AM GMT+9
> To: dfarber () me com
> Subject: Don’t shoot down our drones
> Reply-To: Elliot Harmon | EFF Activism Team <action () eff org>
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> This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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> When government agencies hide their activities from the public, private drones can be a crucial tool for transparency 
> and oversight. When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) barred photographs and videos of its controversial 
> detention centers, journalists were able to use drones to document abuses at those sites.
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> But right now, some lawmakers are working to dismantle this powerful reporting tool. A proposed law would give the 
> DHS and the Department of Justice the power to intercept and destroy private drones it considers a “threat,” with no 
> safeguards ensuring that that power isn’t abused.
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> To make it worse, members of Congress are expected to vote on these powers as part of a routine Federal Aviation 
> Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, with no chance for meaningful debate on how best to limit the government’s 
> authority to intercept or destroy drones.
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> We can’t hand the right to take over or shoot down private drones to the DHS and DOJ, offices that are already 
> notorious for their hostility to public oversight. Let’s tell Congress to reject the FAA authorization bill unless 
> these powers are stripped from it.
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> Don't give DHS and DOJ free reign to shoot down private drones
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> Thank you,
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> Elliot Harmon
> Activism Team
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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