Is Your State One of the Six Chosen for Drone Testing in 2014?Chris Carrington So the people in these states will now have to put up with drones flying overhead as researchers figure out how to make them safe for commercial use. That implies they are not currently safe for use. How many accidents and incidents are there going to be over the next two years? Will testing of the drones, which we all know are going to be used for law enforcement, mean that the residents of these states are going to be subjected to warrantless spying and invasion of privacy so that the scientists can get the right settings for the real roll out? This project is nothing more than a test run for the government who are intent on watching our every move. Once the masses are used to seeing delivery drones or crop spraying drones in the sky normalcy bias will set in, and we are done for. How easy it would be to add a camera to the farmer drone that dusts crops. Those who have chosen to live off the beaten path in relative isolation and privacy are about to have that privacy violated. You can call a drone whatever you like: power company survey drone, farmer drone, law enforcement drone or delivery drone; the name doesnt matter. What matters is that these flying lumps of technology can be programmed to do whatever their handlers want them to do. Old farmer Fred might be legitimately using them for crop dusting, but he will most likely have no idea that aerial photographs of his neighbors property is getting transmitted back to mission control. Drone technology is so open to abuse it doesnt bear thinking about, and the legislation that has just been passed to allow this limited rollout of the eye in the sky is just the beginning. Full statement from the FAA: Chris Carrington is a writer, researcher and lecturer with a background in science, technology and environmental studies. Chris is an editor for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared.Wake the flock up! 