{"id":17544,"date":"2015-06-03T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17544"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:23:59","slug":"techdirt-doj-releases-surveillance-drone-policy-undercuts-accountability-claims-by-exempting-it-from-use-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17544","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: DOJ Releases Surveillance Drone Policy, Undercuts Accountability Claims By Exempting It From Use In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20150526\/12043531117\/doj-releases-surveillance-drone-policy-undercuts-accountability-claims-exempting-it-use-court.shtml\">DOJ Releases Surveillance Drone Policy, Undercuts Accountability Claims By Exempting It From Use In Court<\/a> by Tim Cushing: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI won&#8217;t tell you how its drone usage affects your privacy. It has withheld every page of its Privacy Impact Assessment from FOIA requesters. In fact, it now claims it can&#8217;t even find the withheld document, so that avenue appears to be a dead end. The DOJ, which oversees the FBI, hasn&#8217;t offered any further insight into its assorted agencies&#8217; drone usage (other than those forced out of its hands in relation to its justification for killing people with weaponized drones). It&#8217;s been almost a decade since the first reported use of (non-killing surveillance) drones under the DOJ&#8217;s watch, and only now do we get to see how it weighs citizens&#8217; privacy against the needs of law enforcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: DOJ Releases Surveillance Drone Policy, Undercuts Accountability Claims By Exempting It From Use In Court by Tim Cushing: The FBI won&#8217;t tell you how its drone usage affects your privacy. It has withheld every page of its Privacy Impact &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17545,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}