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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a very valuable set of documents it obtained via FOIA from Customs & Border Protection (CBP) on that agency鈥檚 use of drones. EFF found that CPB has greatly increased the number of missions that it has flown鈥攊nside the border region鈥攐n behalf of other state, local and federal agencies. The EFF鈥檚 Jennifer Lynch summarizes what they found nicely in .

All the public discussion around the CBP鈥檚 use of drones has centered around their use on the border. As far as I know, CBP鈥檚 drone program was intended and authorized by Congress for the purpose of patrolling the nation鈥檚 borders. It was not intended to be a general law enforcement drone 鈥渓ending library,鈥� in which Predator drones (which are quite unlike the small UAVs that police departments around the country are beginning to acquire and deploy) are used for all manner of purposes across the country. Many of those purposes are totally unobjectionable, but if such a system is to be created, it should be only following a full, open, and democratic discussion, and (as Lynch points out) with a strong set of privacy policies. It should certainly not be created in secret by a single federal agency.