In a letter penned on November 8, 2012, the heads of 20 of the nation’s largest aviation industry groups called on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Michael Huerta to continue to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), better known as drones, into the American National Airspace System (NAS) in a timely manner.

The letter calls on the FAA to completely ignore the quite troubling privacy concerns posed by drones and thus the legal concerns surrounding the sharing of drone-collected surveillance between military and law en....

“It is our belief that for FAA to succeed, the agency must remain focused on safety rather than privacy issues, where the FAA has no statutory standing or technical expertise,” the letter states.

In other words, they want the FAA to write off any and all privacy issues since they supposedly have “no statutory standing or technical expertise” without actually identifying where or when these concerns will be addressed.

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