Monday, January 12, 2015

Gov's Warrantless Electronic Surveillance Planned For Your Home

DARPA Developing Microdrones Designed to Sneak Into Homes Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The federal government apparently isn’t content with remotely watching and recording your every electronic (and real world) movement; it will soon control microdrones that could then be sent surreptitiously into your home. And unless the warrentless electronic surveillance already being conducted by government-run-amok is brought to a halt, this new form of home invasion will also be warrantless.DARPA, the military’s research and development arm, has announced its intent to sponsor development of a new category of these tiny monitors.In a press release soliciting bids for manufacture of the microdrones, DARPA doesn’t define the potential target theatre, but any promise of foreign focus is illusory in a world where the Constitution’s prohibition on warrantless searches is seen as nothing more than a quaint parchment barrier to those determined to keep an eye (and ear) on every person in the world.Of course, in the present climate of near-constant urban unrest, it isn’t a stretch to see the deployment of these drones justified by the urgent need to restore peace and order.The outline of the DARPA scheme, called the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program, is set out in a presolicitation announcement posted by the federal government:The Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program will explore non-traditional perception and autonomy methods that enable new classes of minimalistic algorithms for high-speed navigation in cluttered environments. Through this exploration, the program will develop and demonstrate the capability for small and fast unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to fly autonomously through complex, cluttered environments.



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