[higherpurpose]

And I assume the "USA Freedom Act", which has been drastically watered down already and Democrats are now pretending to want to revive it (after losing Senate...) so they look good at the next elections, doesn't even cover this sort of surveillance.

[declan]

There are two ways in which the "USA Freedom Act" could cover flying dirtboxes: regulation and reporting. I've been working on http://recent.io/ rather than following this closely but I'm not aware of any effect the bill would have on dirtboxes (love that term!).