Drones

I wrote the drones into Gone To Ground because of their ubiquity in the world and their deeply annoying sound. My hope was readers could identify with wanting to move out if drones hovered endlessly over your neighborhood. This past year has offered an uncanny array of life-imitating-art scenarios, and this, the spying drone, has finally appeared - sadly. The article is from Minneapolis and here is a summary:

In Minneapolis, residents opposing ICE operations have reported a surge of mysterious drone sightings over their neighborhoods and homes since late January. One activist, Erin, was woken by a drone hovering outside her bedroom window and believes she was being targeted by the federal government due to her anti-ICE work. Neighbors have collectively logged dozens of potential sightings, and residents describe tracking drone activity nightly through neighborhood chat groups.

Civil liberties experts warn that flying drones near people's windows likely violates Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches, and that outdated privacy laws are ill-equipped to address modern surveillance technology. Residents fear the drones are being used to build databases tracking people's movements and activities, raising broad concerns about government overreach and the erosion of privacy rights.