Big Brother is watching: military surveillance drones in the land of the free

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(CCL Danny Choo)

Unmanned surveillance drones: They’re not just for war zones any more.

In fact, they’re coming soon to a city, town or sheriff’s office near you.

The FAA predicts 30,000 drones overhead by 2020 after Congress passed an FAA Reauthorization Act in February ordering the FAA to fast-track introduction of drones into American airspace.

They’ll have many good uses, of course: looking for lost kids, missing hikers and adults with Alzheimer’s, fighting forest fires, monitoring our borders, and so on.

But that’s not all.

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