Netbuzz writes "The internet banking Frontier understructure nine months ago filed a Freedom of confidence Act request to prompt the FAA to release the names of guidance agencies and private entities that have sanctioned condonation to fly unmanned aircraft over our heads. Nine months later, the FAA has neither released the score nor explained why it hasn't. On Tuesday the EFF filed suit (PDF) to force the agency to do so. Says EFF staff mouthpiece* Jennifer Lynch: 'Drones give the bureaucracy and other unmanned aircraft operators a puissant new surveillance tool to gather extended and intrusive data on Americans' movements and activities. As the execution begins to make policy lay down the law about the use of these aircraft, the public needs to know more about how and why these drones are being used to surveil United States citizens.'"

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