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Raising concerns about privacy, America’s skies could be filled with thousands of drones by 2018 under a new plan unveiled by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The plan would allow the operation of privately owned aerial drones in American airspace ...

Simply taking pictures of police officers has gotten a number of people arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, arrested. Several citizens have come forward and said that officers seized their phones and in some cases arrested them for taking pictures of and ...

Black boxes in our cars may soon become a reality in all cars, tracking and taxing every mile we drive. A lack of cash to repair the decaying highway infrastructure reportedly has prompted the high-tech data boxes idea. The black ...

Law enforcement agencies will have to get warrants if they want to track vehicles using GPS under a landmark federal court ruling. In the first explicit ruling of its kind, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FBI ...

Wearable video cameras, or body cams, might soon become standard equipment for police on the beat – a possibility that has led to both praise and concern from civil liberties groups. Some local governments are encouraging the use of “on-officer ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been transformed into a domestic intelligence agency and a threat to American liberty in the years since September 11, 2001. That’s the conclusion of one of the nation’s most respected legal advocacy groups, the ...

You’re probably familiar with the airplane black box, but are you familiar with the automobile black box? The black box is also known as the event data recorder, or EDR for short. The device is about the size of a ...

Some state governments are adding a new technology called radio frequency identification chips (also known as RFIDs) to driver’s licenses that will make it easy – critics say — for state officials to track citizens. The technology is not new; ...

The US government’s tracking of telephone calls is far more widespread than Americans thought. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has its own telephone call program that’s even more extensive than the National Security Agency’s. The DEA has accumulated a database ...

Do you live in a “Constitution Free Zone?” Millions of Americans live in towns where many of the wise words drafted by the Founding Fathers do not necessarily apply. The areas deemed a Constitution-Free Zone extend 100 miles inland from ...