Dollars. And then you have the highend drones that can go up to tens of thousands of dollars. But now two berkeley City Commissions want to ban all of them. Reporter theyre small, easy to operate, and they can record extremely detailed footage. For example, they have sense through the wall technology, sttw. That means they can actually look through your wall not just through your window and observe whats happening inside. Reporter George Lippman with berkeleys peace and Justice Commission used drones as an invasive surveillance tool. His commission is asking the city to ban both government and commercial use of drones. The data will feed into the National Network of security and, uhm, surveillance. Reporter a second City Commission made the same request to declare berkeley a no drone zone. They say the recent nsa Data Collection scandal is an example of how drones can be misused. But the allout ban isnt flying for some councilmembers. Totally unenforceable. I dont think anyone wants to
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