new legal questions it'll be brought up concerning our privacy or to discuss this with me is hardly giger policy counsel at the center for democracy and technology hi thanks so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me now ok as i mentioned this really was a broader f.a.a. bill in order to monitor modernize the way that we control our air traffic control system but of course this little bit about opening up the skies to drones is in it too and so it passed with bipartisan support but you know it was there anybody out there was there any civil libertarians that decided to speak up and maybe dissent when it came to the voting you know in your eyes that it was a bipartisan effort passed overwhelmingly in the republican controlled house and then also in the democrat controlled senate there were no hearings the bill passed the house and then three days later passed the senate so the thing was fast tracked no hearings on privacy to build into the thing about the civil liberties implications of filling the sky with flying robots all right this one was a piece of cake part of the house we'

and it's hardly giger of the policy counsel at the center for democracy and technology explain to us there wasn't really an outcry when congress had its hands on this legislation. bipartisan effort and passed overwhelmingly in the republican controlled house and also in the democratic controlled senate there were no hearings the bill passed the house and three years later power.

and it's hardly giger of the policy counsel at the center for democracy and technology explain to us there wasn't really an outcry.

and it's hardly giger of the policy council at the center for democracy and technology explain to us there wasn't really an outcry when congress had its hands on this legislation. a bipartisan effort and passed overwhelmingly in the republican controlled house and then also in the democratic controlled senate there were no hearings the bill passed the house and three years later passed the senate so the thing was fast tracked no hearings on privacy the bill mentioned nothing about the civil liberties implications of filling the sky with flying robots. that's right they just fast track to bill with no chance of privacy advocates to explain why they're against robots tracking your every move and how we should properly prepare and adjust the rules on this kind of thing now an article from the republic report might explain why that is lobbyists so you turns out of the association for unmanned vehicle systems international which is the drone trade group has doubled its lobbying expenses in recent years and as you can see from this graph here from two thousand and nine to two thousand and