{"id":13164,"date":"2014-09-14T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13164"},"modified":"2014-09-14T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:49:14","slug":"cnet-california-bill-would-ban-police-drone-spying-without-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13164","title":{"rendered":"CNET: California bill would ban police drone spying without warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNET:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/california-bill-would-ban-police-drone-spying-without-warrant\/\"> California bill would ban police drone spying without warrant<\/a> by Daniel Terdiman:<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which is now on the governor&#8217;s desk, pits privacy advocates against law enforcement interests in managing the emerging technology.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drones may seem like a dream for law enforcement agencies wanting to put cameras in the sky for easy airborne surveillance, but a bill that sailed through the California legislature seeks to require a warrant for all but the most urgent spying.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, the would-be law, known as the Unmanned Aircraft Systems bill, easily passed both houses of California&#8217;s Democratic-majority legislature late last month. It is now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s signature. Brown has until the end of September to make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Although the bill addresses and permits many non-law enforcement uses by government agencies of drones &#8212; which it refers to formally as &#8220;civil unmanned aircraft systems&#8221; &#8212; the heart of the proposed law is geared toward ensuring that police obtain court-issued warrants before deploying the flying devices for most surveillance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET: California bill would ban police drone spying without warrant by Daniel Terdiman: The bill, which is now on the governor&#8217;s desk, pits privacy advocates against law enforcement interests in managing the emerging technology.<\/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-13164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13166,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions\/13166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}