mr. cummings. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. geiger, the expectation of privacy, talk about that, certainly no court cases in light of the question comes down to what is expected of the person. i guess when you have drones it really broadens the expectation, is that right? it kind of throws, it just opens the door to all kinds of surveillance. do you follow what i'm saying? >> i do. i believe this is how courts will interpret that in the future. right now the supreme court has interpreted the regional expectation of privacy doctrine do not include aerial surveillance from the publicly navigable airspace. i can only imagine that regional expectation of privacy standard or in common law torts would count as highly offensive to raise will persevere i will only imagine that will shrink as more and more ues take to the sky. this is one reason why we are arguing that current federal law does not provide adequate privacprivacy protection to we d not just rely on common law or the fourth amendment, the ought to be something in federal l

mr. cummings from maryland for his opening statements. smtion thank you very much mr.hairman for calling this hearing. this is a really interesting hearing and what that i think is extremely important. and drones are an exciting new technology with a lot of potential uses in the not so distant future. companies aren't developing new companies to fight forest fires or even to deliver pizza, however, mr. chairman i share the same concerns as you and many other americans. i want the use of drones to be safe. and i want to make sure that the privacy interests of the american people are protected. as with any new groundbreaking technology, our regulatory regime is not yet fully caught up with drones. an existing rule do not fully address the concerns americans have. our goal must be to balance these concerns in a way that allows for the robust development of these new technologies while ensuring that necessary safeguards are in place. in 2014, there were more than 9.5 million commercial airline flights carrying more than 850 million passengers in the united states according