Bloomberg Government: NFL Fears ‘Nefarious’ Drones, Seeks Law to Thwart Stadium Risks

The bill would give local law enforcement “a lot of authority to define the threats and grants them a lot of authority in terms of how they react to that perceived threat,” said Electronic Privacy Information Center senior counsel Jeramie Scott. “On the flip side, there’s not a lot of meaningful oversight.”

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“It’s not really good policy to provide blanket authority to the government for a technology that we don’t know how it’s going to be used,” EPIC’s Scott said. “That just sets you up for abuse down the road.”

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