{"id":110593,"date":"2020-07-29T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:03:02","slug":"how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance","title":{"rendered":"How to hide from a drone \u2013 the subtle art of \u2018ghosting\u2019 in the age of surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by journalists and activists to document large protests. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=MEUtCZYAAAAJ&hl=en\">political sociologist<\/a> who studies social movements and drones, I document a wide range of nonviolent and pro-social drone uses in my new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/good-drone\">The Good Drone<\/a>.\u201d I show that these efforts have the potential to democratize surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>But when the Department of Homeland Security redirects large, fixed-wing drones from the U.S.-Mexico border to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/19\/us\/politics\/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html\">monitor protests<\/a>, and when towns experiment with using drones to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/connecticut-town-tests-pandemic-drone-detect-fevers-experts-question-if-n1189546\">test people for fevers<\/a>, it\u2019s time to think about how many eyes are in the sky and how to avoid unwanted aerial surveillance. One way that\u2019s within reach of nearly everyone is learning how to simply disappear from view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by journalists and activists to document large protests. As a political sociologist who studies social movements and drones, I document a wide range of nonviolent and pro-social drone uses in my new book, \u201cThe Good Drone.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}