Drones are cool and have a lot of useful applications, and yes the cat is out of the box and you can not go back. But they can be disastrous for you privacy also.
Exclusive: Brickell Key Woman Says Drone Spied On Her As She Breastfed
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Imagine you’re in the privacy of your own home — possibly in a compromising position — and you turn around and see a drone just a few feet from you. A Brickell Key woman says that’s what happened to her while she was breastfeeding her child earlier this week inside the family’s 12th floor condo.
Christina Alessi says she was sitting at her kitchen table breastfeeding her 15-month old daughter on Tuesday when she had a strange feeling.
“I was in a bit of a compromising position and I felt the feeling of someone staring at me and I looked up and there was a robot staring at me,” Alessi said.
She said it was a drone and she snapped a photo of it. She said it hovered just a few feet from her window for about 15 seconds, flew away and then returned. Alessi said she could see the lens on the drone.
“It was staring straight at me,” she said.
Alessi says her fear is that the drone recorded her.
“I could only assume that I was being recorded because there was a camera there,” she said. “This could be displayed again. I don’t know what purposes they could use it for. It seems like a pervert to me.”
She reported the drone to her building management but first she called her husband who wanted to exact some revenge.
“He says, ‘Well get a broom and swat that thing!’ she said. “I said, ‘I don’t know if it’s gonna come back’ but I got the broom handy.”
Alessi’s privacy concerns are real, says Michelle Richardson with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Richardson pointed to a new Florida law that will go into effect this summer — called the “Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act” as a good first step towards regulating drones. Richardson said the law will impose civil penalties on drone users that capture images of unknowing people on private property where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
“When you’re talking about looking into people’s homes and violating individual privacy, it’s an unchartered area,” Richardson said. “And we’re really doing this for the first time in Florida.”
Alessi hopes others hear her story and realize that no matter where you live or how high up there might be a high tech Peeping Tom keeping tabs on you.
“I think it’s scary,” she said. “I think it’s a little nerve-wracking that you can’t do what you want inside your house without knowing something is out there watching you do it.”
The federal government is aware of the privacy concerns. The Commerce Department is working on codes of conduct for drone users.
Also, there is legislation filed in Congress that would severely limit the use of the drones. The bill filed by Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) would demand that anyone with a license to fly a drone disclose whether data will be collected by the drone and how that data will be used.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/05/20/brickell-key-woman-says-drone-spied-on-her-as-she-breastfed/
Common Core is nothing but garbage
Report: Common Core Lesson Plan Pushes Pro-Palestinian Agenda
A Massachusetts program for middle- and high-school students is coming under fire for its political bent and anti-Israel bias.
According to a report in the publication The College Fix, the workshop teaches that Hamas and Fatah — which began as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement founded by Yasser Arafat — promote "more peaceful means than intifada"; that Hamas is a political party, not a terrorist group; that Fatah and Hamas are political parties equivalent to Likud and Labor in Israel; that the use of drones to stop terrorists are like high-tech suicide bombers who kill innocents; that Hamas and Jews have equal claim to Jerusalem; and that the Palestinians have equal claim to land where Israel exists today.
The lesson plan has been approved nationally for the Common Core curriculum, The College Fix reports.
The program, "Whose Jerusalem?" is offered through the nonprofit "Axis of Hope," which operates out of the Boston University Global Literary Institute, working with some 25 high schools in various states and three foreign schools, according to The College Fix.
And it is Common Core-approved, "despite its bias and serious flaws," charges Americans for Peace and Tolerance president Charles Jacobs, The College Fix says.
The workshop requires students to play the parts of Arab, Israeli, or American leaders negotiating a "best alternative to a negotiated agreement" for the division of Jerusalem.
Boston University instructor Carl Hobart, who created the program, insists the classes are
simple conflict resolution.
But Americans for Peace and Tolerance released a video April 23 aiming to show the
program's anti-Israel slant.
Story continues below video.
Hobart admitted to Al-Jazeera he hopes the exercises will lead students to "put pressure on our government to create a Palestinian state," The College Fix reports.
Jacobs is incensed, telling The College Fix: "At a time of growing anti-Semitism on U.S college campuses, it is very disturbing that both Boston University and Weston High School would permit or promote such biased educational materials in the classroom."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Common-Core-Massachusetts-school-program/2015/05/19/id/645586/#ixzz3an1387UA
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