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Toy Helicopter Helped Change Feinstein’s Mind About Surveillance Drones – 17 March 2014

RT logo(Lucas : as long as you, Feinstein, not make regulations to get rid of private owned personal drones for personal use as that would be easy to do…. hey… Feinstein…now so concerned about a toy helicopter…..really!)

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) now says she has some serious privacy concerns about domestic drones, but it might have been nothing more than a children’s toy that put her over the edge.

Feinstein — who also serves as the head of the US Senate Intelligence Committee — has since last year been advocating for her congressional colleagues to implement privacy safeguards to protect Americans from any potential surveillance threats brought on by the small, unmanned aerial vehicles expected to soon invade local airspace.

“The administration is looking at a rules playbook as to how these won’t be used and how they will be used,” Feinstein told MSNBC a year ago this month. “So it’s a very complicated subject of new technology and I think we have to take a pause and get it right.”

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