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183 ACLU Accuses California Local Government's Drones of 'Runaway Spying Operation'

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/07/2025 23:34 EDT

ACLU Accuses California Local Government's Drones of 'Runaway Spying Operation'

An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a "warrantless drone surveillance program" that's "trampling residents' right to privacy":

Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a "runaway spying operation"... according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The North Bay county of Sonoma initially started the 6-year-old drone program to track illegal cannabis cultivation, but the lawsuit alleges that.

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