The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone

[DamianTV]

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/...ack-your-drone

The Trump administration wants federal agencies to be able to track, hack, or even destroy drones that pose a threat to law enforcement and public safety operations, The New York Times reports. A proposed law, if passed by Congress, would let the government take down unmanned aircraft posing a danger to firefighting and search-and-rescue missions, prison operations, or "authorized protection of a person." The government will be required to respect "privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties" when exercising that power, the draft bill says. But records of anti-drone actions would be exempt from public disclosure under freedom of information laws, and people's right to sue over damaged and seized drones would be limited, according to the text of the proposal published by the Times. The administration, which would not comment on the proposal, scheduled a classified briefing on Wednesday for congressional staff members to discuss the issue.

... one Nation, under Total Surveillance

[Dr.3D]

People are going to want faster drones.

[Swordsmyth]

"But records of anti-drone actions would be exempt from public disclosure under freedom of information laws, and people's right to sue over damaged and seized drones would be limited, according to the text of the proposal published by the Times."

That is the big problem.
There might be cases where "tak[ing] down unmanned aircraft posing a danger to firefighting and search-and-rescue missions, prison operations, or 'authorized protection of a person.' " would be needed.

[Swordsmyth]

People are going to want faster drones.

And armored drones.

[Dr.3D]

And armored drones.

Armor means weight... better to just have em faster than those boys with the shotguns can hit.

[oyarde]

My ADKSDF cannot be hacked We will still be able to drop armored enemy drones with the current package