Only a few weeks after a district court struck down the federal government’s rules requiring recreational drone owners to register their aircraft, the White House drafted legislation that would give federal agencies the right to track and possibly destroy unmanned aircraft over certain domestic facilities and events.
The news was first reported in the New York Times.
The draft bill would let government agencies and law enforcement monitor drone radio communications to determine if the aircraft is a threat to a “covered operation” or facility in the U.S. and then intercept, confiscate and/or destroy the aircraft.
