[LucyT]

**** Follow the Money, who in D. C. gains?

From the Article:

According to some estimates, the commercial drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the FAA clears their use.

Thanks, Travis McGee. - Neat graphics at # 27.

[maggief]

http://gawker.com/5870874/how-your-privacy-will-be-invaded-in-2012

Drone wars: The ACLU just recently warned that increasingly cheap and common drones threaten “routine aerial surveillance of American life.” The civil liberties group is mainly concerned about law enforcement agencies using the remote controlled sky robots, but blogging and software pioneer Dave Winer recently outlined how private industry could put drones to terrifying use:

What about the day when Google decides to upgrade their maps app to provide real-time views? That’s scary because they have the money to put up a lot of drones. And we know they’re interested in airplanes. They want the old blimp hangar at Moffett Field. Maybe that’s where they’ll put their drone factory.

But the really scary idea is when Facebook, flush with cash from their IPO, deploys a fleet of drones to all our houses!

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Thanks for the Big Brother Ping.