Surveillance drones deployment on US’s Great Lakes raises data collection fears (opens in new tab)

Rights groups and some locals worry that program to ‘track illicit activity’ could become a data collection projectThe Great Lakes have rarely ever been considered a hotbed of illicit drug activity or center for illegal immigration.But that hasn’t stopped US government agencies and the company behind surveillance sailing drones from treating the region as such. The US Coast Guard it has launched an armada of at least six sailing drones in the Great Lakes this summer in an attempt to, in part,...