PO231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Asymmetric Warfare, American Civil Liberties Union, General Atomics
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Drones and issues around privacy and surveillance electronic. Uav: unmanned aerial vehicles: aircraft without a human pilot, sensors that take down information to track and precision target (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) America"s targeted killing program along the afghan-pakistan border. Forensic architecture in london university and situ research. Us carried out at least 400 drone strikes since 2004. Students gather at the site of a suspected cia drone strike on a seminary in hangu district. The us often carries out such attacks on pakistan"s tribal regions, claiming that the militants are their target. But locals say civilians are the main victims of the non-un-sanctioned us strikes. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Using drones for targeted killing raise the following concerns: Civilian deaths but also blowback that produces terrorists (see the intercept. com the drone papers) Signature strikes and the fact that killing may be done based on a profile rather than known identity of a person.
