Are Drones Watching Your Town?

Have you ever wondered if drones can fly over your head? That's still a very tough question to answer thoroughly -- but now we have a better idea of who has applied for permission to use flying bots in American airspace.

The Federal Aviation Administration has released an updated list of public entities who have applied for a special permission -- called certificate of authorization (COA) -- to fly unmanned aerial vehicles.

The list was obtained by the digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The EFF had already released in April a partial list of 61 entities that had applied for drone permits. With the new additio…
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