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California Sheriff Faces Loud Privacy Protests Against Drone Plans
"The hearing comes after a number of inauspicious false starts for an Alameda County drone program. In October, documents obtained in the EFF/Muckrock 2012 Drone Census revealed a significant discrepancy between the Office's proposal to the County Supervisors and its request to another agency for funding. In particular, while the Sheriff's Office had told the County that it intended to use the drone only for emergency purposes, its funding request named surveillance on 'suspicious persons,' 'large crowd control disturbances,' and counter-terrorism applications."
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