security or are they the latest infringement on our liberties for this topic i was joined earlier by amy stepanovna the national security council for epic here's her take. well congress passed this bill as you said earlier this year that allowed drones to well facilitate drones operating the united states and they did it without a hearing without really anything they passed it very quickly and it went through and nobody really heard anything about it two senators just recently have come back senator markey and senator barton and said wait a second there are privacy issues with this we need to have the f.a.a. and we need to have the manufacturers answer a few questions about what's going on but this kind of butts up against deadlines that have already been passed into law that the f.a.a. has to meet in order to increase in the air space so there's some tension there between if we're going to address the privacy issues which are very very real and serious or if we're going to move forward with the firm deadlines in place and if the skies are going to open up without privacy protections which would be

really take initiative to use these drones to do whatever they please deems necessary that was amy stepanovna step on of a church national security council for epic well that does it for now if you missed part of this or any show we covered today do not worry we post all of our interviews online in full for you to watch it as many times as your heart desires just go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website r t dot com slash usa there you'll find a bunch of stories we don't always have time to get to on air today our intrepid web team wrote an interesting article about the cost of cyber bullying but i'm not talking about the psychological toll this behavior takes on the victims i'm talking about cold hard cash a jury in texas just awarded thirteen point eight million dollars to a couple that filed a defamation lawsuit after being tegan eyes on the internet so is this the next step in cyber censorship and what does this mean for your constitutional rights read her article find out and we want to hear from you leave us your comments feedback and story suggestions we're alway