City in Virginia
us News – Jason Koebler – 2/5/2013
The resolution, passed
Monday, "calls on the United States Congress and the General Assembly of
the Commonwealth
of Virginia
The resolution passed by a
3-2 vote and was brought to the city council by activist David Swanson and the
Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group based in the city. The measure
also endorses a proposed two-year moratorium on drones in Virginia
Councilmember Dede Smith,
who voted in favor of the bill, says that drones are "pretty clearly a
threat to our constitutional right to privacy."
"If we don't get out
ahead of it to establish some guidelines for how drones are used, they will be
used in a very invasive way and we'll be left to try and pick up the
pieces," she says.
"Lawmakers should be
looking at [drone privacy] issues now in order to ensure that there are
safeguards in place to protect individual privacy from these invasive
technologies," she says.
With a lot of these
resolutions, although they don't have a lot of teeth to them, they can inspire
other governments to pass similar measures," she says. "You can get a
critical mass and then it does have influence. One doesn't do much, but a thousand
of them might. We want this on [federal and state lawmakers'] radars."
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