More importantly, why isn’t FBI using cheaper drones to spy on us?
Jun 3, 2015, 12:11 PM | Updated: Oct 14, 2024, 9:20 am
In this photo taken May 26, 2015, a small plane flies near Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas, Va. The plane is among a fleet of surveillance aircraft by the FBI, which are primarily used to target suspects under federal investigation. Such planes are capable of taking video of the ground, and some _ in rare occasions _ can sweep up certain identifying cellphone data. (AP)
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Taken from Wednesday’s edition of the David Boze Show on AM 770 KTTH.
The FBI has reportedly confirmed it’s using surveillance aircraft all over the place, including Seattle, and the Associated Press traced them to 13 different fake companies.
For folks who are upset by the fake companies that are set up, it’s been going on now for 35 years. It’s apparently in order to prevent bad guys from looking up and saying ‘aha, that’s an FBI plane, we need to be careful, they’re on to us.’
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They set it up to look like something else, from some other company as a way of making it slightly more difficult for them to be able to figure out.
I don’t know if my privacy has been violated. I think you have to take a look at what kinds of information has been gathered. Is it the kind of information that’s basically out there in the open anyway or is it very specific to the individual? If it’s specific to the individual, then we’ve got ourselves a problem.
In the meantime, I’m not going to be one who’s necessarily going to be freaking out about the FBI’s secret planes. Apparently the shell companies and other surveillance equipment have been used in this way for a couple of decades — since the advancement of the technology.
It also illustrates something about the suspicion on drones. If the surveillance is wise to use in this format, it’s also vastly more expensive. If you did have a drone that could accomplish the same thing, but cost the fraction of that amount of money, it might be worth considering using them in certain circumstances.
They’d be smaller, maybe quieter, and in some cases, dramatically less expensive. That leaves more resources for law enforcement use or a return to the taxpayer. Either way, it’s a bonus for me.
Taken from Wednesday’s edition of the David Boze Show on AM 770 KTTH.
