Author Archives: Martin Walls
Domestic drone justice: US court green-lights police UAV use
A North Dakota court has approved the use of drones to help arrest citizens on US soil. UAVs have primarily been used to conduct strikes against purported militants in countries like Pakistan, but their use at home has been on the rise as of late. Continue reading
Drone journalism set for takeoff – once they’re permitted to use our airspace
Drones already attract press attention, but soon journalists could be using them in their own work, says Duncan Jefferies Continue reading
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The hubbub over nonexistent drones provides a look at something hard to capture in American politics: the vibrant, almost viral, life cycle of a falsehood. This one seems to have been born less than three weeks ago, in tweets and blog posts that twisted the details of a real news story about EPA inspectors flying in small planes. Continue reading
Why We Shouldn’t Fear Personal Drones
What will drones be doing? The usual assumption is that it will be police surveillance and general snooping. Interestingly, that’s just what people feared when the computer, which had also been introduced as a military technology, started to be used commercially in the 1960s. The worry then was that computers would be used primarily to spy on us, as an arm of Big Brother. Only decades later, once we all had one, did we figure out that they were better at work and entertainment, communicating with each other and generally being welcome additions to our lives. Continue reading
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