The Impact of Domestic Drones on Privacy, Safety and National Security


The Impact of Domestic Drones on Privacy, Safety and National Security
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4, 2012, 2:00 pm, at Brookings

PARTICIPANTS
Introduction and Moderator
Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Panelists
John Villasenor
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Professor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA

Revolution ; raise concerns  
(1), Privacy – hovering neighborhood, keeping watching someone’s backyard, peeping tom
(2), law enforcement
(3), national security

Paul Rosenzweig
Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Founder, Red Branch Consulting PLLC

Evolution rather than revolution ;
highlight the bright side of drones particularly in the area of law enforcement, e.g., border patrol

Catherine Crump
Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union
Nonresident Fellow, Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Implication of proliferation of drones for law enforcement
Drone’s Privacy aspect in government v. citizen setting

Kenneth Anderson
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University

Privacy in private v. private setting
what we should discuss first before getting to privacy concern is the meaning or scope of privacy. The concept has evolved. When Caller ID was first introduced, ACLU in Philadelphia argued it was violation of the First Amendment, because it prevented caller from getting to another. Young people using Twitter and FB, however, have a very sophisticated sense of privacy like a bundle of stick in property law.