Drones pose a threat to Americans’ privacy

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“Don’t drone, me, bro!” — that’s one way to sum up Charles Krauthammer’s heated reaction to last week’s news that the Federal Aviation Administration had loosened restrictions on local police departments’ use of surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

“Stop it here, stop it now,” Krauthammer exclaimed on Fox News’s “Special Report” Monday, “I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home. … I’m not encouraging, but I am predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.” 

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