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| FBI refuses to release legally mandated report on drone surveillance |
| 2014-07-25 |
| [Daily Caller] Watchdog organizations have just submitted a new round of requests in an ongoing struggle to force the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make reports on the privacy implications of its drone surveillance public. According to the E-Government Act of 2002, government agencies are required to publish a privacy impact assessment (PIA) prior to utilizing any technology that collects personal information. Despite the fact that the FBI has been deploying drones since at least 2005, the only PIA released by the bureau was fully redacted, Motherboard reports. Even then, the fully redacted report was only released after a lawsuit from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Perhaps the |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 The "Walk arounds"Won't write about the "Fly arounds". Got it. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 15:20 |
| #1 Yes, the FBI has drones; moreover, the Dept of Justice itself has them. Some of them fly. Most just walk around. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-25 07:18 |