Careful readers will immediately note the dilemma: A drone operator could be prosecuted or sued for (1) collecting information in the first place, (2) destroying that information (because she is covering up evidence of a crime as well as discoverable evidence in a lawsuit), and (3) prosecuted for not destroying the information (as required by the law).

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In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.

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