"Online privacy policies don't require that websites protect privacy," said Jennifer Lynch, a senior

Monday's decision will give companies, universities and others place to test much broader uses, such as crop spraying, catching exotic-animal poachers or delivering packages, as Amazon.com Inc recently suggested.
airline travel cheap While the test sites were hailed by governments and industry as a major milestone that would bring broad economic benefits to the winning regions, they also renewed privacy and safety concerns about the aircraft, which can hover over cities and record people's movements with sophisticated video cameras.
Drones are popular with law enforcement in part because airline travel cheap they are smaller and less costly alternatives airline travel cheap to manned aircraft. They also are a growing business for companies such as Boeing Co, Northrop Grumman Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp and AeroVironment Inc.
But since 2012, when congress required the FAA to establish a roadmap for the broader use of drones, 42 states airline travel cheap have considered restrictions based on privacy or safety concerns, according to the American Civil Liberties airline travel cheap Union . Eight states have passed such laws, and most require probable cause warrants before the surveillance can be used in criminal cases.
The FAA already has approved more than 300 requests for unmanned aircraft use, and many have raised safety issues more than privacy. But as technology improves in the absence of a privacy airline travel cheap policy, fears of "Big Brother" in the sky have grown.
"You can imagine a world in which it is impossible to walk out of your house without being subjected to persistent monitoring and recording by drones," airline travel cheap said Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York. "Things that might have seemed airline travel cheap like science fiction will be here before we know it."
"Online privacy policies don't require that websites protect privacy," said Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization. "We still don't know what data the drones are going to be gathering at the test sites."
The FAA chose the six sites, in Alaska, New York, North Dakota, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia, from the 25 applications it received from 24 states. The agency is required to write initial rules governing the commercial operation of drones by 2015.
The Texas law, for example, excludes flights or testing at sites approved by the FAA, said Gloria Gallardo, director of media relations at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, which was among the six sites selected.
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