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This chapter briefly describes the commercial and public service applications for drone technology in domestic society along with the desire on the part of law enforcement to acquire such capabilities that could be used for public safety. These coming transformations challenge traditional civil liberty notions of privacy and due process and even raise the specter of governments executing their own citizens with drones. The public policy and constitutional issues raised by drones in the domestic sphere are explored and the current status of unmanned aircraft in the United States and their forthcoming inclusion into the national airspace in 2015 are succinctly summarized.
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Rae, J.D. (2014). Public Policy, Privacy, and Drone Technology. In: Analyzing the Drone Debates: Targeted Killing, Remote Warfare, and Military Technology. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381576_5
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