Delivery Drones : Will Amazon Air See The National Airspace?

The Patriot Act was hastily passed just a month later October and it severely limited the privacy of Americans and gave unprecedented power to the government and private agencies to track innocent Americans, turning regular citizens into suspects.5 In addition, the great technological evolution and emerged of social media that occurred round the same time, and shortly thereafter, created the perfect storm for the emergence of the largely unregulated surveillance society that we live in today.6 The result is digitization of people’s personal and professional lives so that every single digital trace that people leave can be identified, stored, and aggregated to constitute a composite sketch of ourselves and its only getting worse. In 2008, passed the FISA Amendments Act, which expands the government’s authority to monitor Americans’ international communications, in addition to domestic communications.7 In short, after 9/11 the U.S is left with a national surveillance state, in which “the proliferation of government technology and bureaucracies that are able to acquire vast and detailed amounts of digital information about individuals with minimal or no judicial supervision and often in complete secrecy,” giving the government and corporations with access to the data that the government compiles the ability to single

​Competition within the internet sales industry is fierce and innovation is the way internet retailers are looking to grab the top spot. Internet retailers such as Walmart are following in the path of competitors and building fulfillment centers left and right to allow for faster delivery to customers. Many internet retailers have explored the possibilities of drone delivery, using customers to deliver products to other customers on their way home, and allowing customers to pick up products out of lockers in stores so they don’t have to wait in line; these competitive strategies internet retailers are seeking to implement illustrate how far firms are willing to go to gain the upper-hand on one another (Forbes, 2012).

The United States of America is undoubtedly one of the world’s largest and most powerful nations. However, it has been facing the problem of terrorism for many decades, most notably after the tragic events of September 11th. The Patriot Act was passed shortly after these events in response to the acts of terrorism witnessed by the whole nation. At the time, it seemed rational and logical to allow this bill to pass, due to the extreme anger of American citizens, and the willingness to fight against terrorism. However, certain breaches of privacy came with the introduction of the Patriot Act. We as Americans want to feel protected from the threats of terrorism, however, we are not willing to give up certain privacies and liberties in order for that to happen, even when put to a vote.

America was founded of the ideals of free speech and equality, but if one tries to exercise these rights to the fullest extent, one’s privacy would be jeopardized. The purpose

She continued her education at Livingston University, Livingston, AL accepting work-study and numerous cleaning jobs to earn an income. She graduated Livingston University in 1993 obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science and a Master’s Degree in 1994.

On June 28th 2015, the U.S Senate failed to reapprove the already expired Patriot Act, resulting in at least a temporary fear of national security. The senate entered into a debate in regards to this expiring act late Sunday night, without coming to a conclusion by midnight the Patriot Act expired, pushing against three laws such as the National Security Agency bulk data collection program. “The lapse was a huge victory for privacy hawks who have called for changes to that program and others under the Patriot Act since Edward Snowden first blew the lid off the NSA's domestic surveillance programs in 2013” (Diamond 1). On the brighter side, the Senate is expecting to restore the Patriot Act during the end of this week. The expiring of the Patriot

The Act? The Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was signed by none other than George bush on October 6 2001, the act itself is abbreviated for uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism act of 2001. Now what this act contained was a series of amendments, or orders that a lot of aspects of modern society had to be monitored and recorded so that way another attack like 9/11 wouldn’t happen. Basically they enhance domestic security against terrorism, heightened surveillance procedures, increased border security, removing obstacles to investigate terrorism,and increased information sharing.They made a wall between everyone's life and theirs with a hug peep hole. Any sensible person would say that such action is for the national security of our country and it makes us a safer country. Although this does make for a huge security benefit for our country, it is sad to say that nobody really has true privacy. How much privacy do we really

To continue, an article titled, “How the NSA’s Surveillance Proceeds Threaten America’s Privacy”, talks about the FSIA Amendment

2012 (Donahue, 2014, pp. 180-181). These changes and others to the USA PATRIOT Act were made in the USA Freedom Act of 2015.

Missy Cummings, naval and officer and military pilot (1988-1999), and was one of the first women in the U.S. Navy's fighter pilots. In “America, Regulated Drones Now Or Get Left Behind”, Missy Cummings claims that Americans regulators must create drone policies due to the fact that “registered drone operators in the U.S. now outnumber registered manned aircraft” (Cummings 1). Cummings supports her claim that drones are a big business by stating “UAV market set to jump from $5.2 Billion (2013) to $11.6 billion (2023)” (Cummings 1), in which therefore, she calls for regulation of commercial drones. The stakeholders in the controversy are workers in drones manufacturers, government officials, and also the American people Cummings’s main suggestion

Both, amazon.com and Boeing, have public infrastructures. To understand this better, a public infrastructure is an infrastructure that is owned for the public or for public use. Both businesses and organizations use a highly global public infrastructure. A global infrastructure, also known as a global information infrastructure or GII, is the “developing communications framework intended to eventually connect all telecommunications and computer networks world-wide.” (Rouse). Being that Boeing is an aerospace company, it is known that they use having a global infrastructure to their advantage. Boeing uses a wide variety of applications and different types of information technology advancements to create their global infrastructure. This includes an aviation network that will increase connectivity (boeing). Amazons infrastructure is based on regions and availability zones within the world. They want to insure connectivity in all throughout countries and that even includes having data centers across the globe (amazon). In turn, both businesses and organizations use the internet globally to their advantage to connect with different regions and time zones to increase business and increase

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Airborne Express has long differentiated itself in the market by structuring itself as a big business only carrier. They have specialized in large unit deliveries through metropolitan areas. Everything they do is aimed to optimize the delivery process and slash cost where ever possible. However, Airborne is now faced with a huge decision. They must decide whether to step away from their differentiation strategy to match the new pricing tactics of the market UPS and FedEx or to continue the old norm of delivery pricing. The new distance-based pricing strategy threatens Airborne’s consistent strategy to cut prices. Clients will seek to ship packages at the lowest cost. The short distance deliveries will be ruled by UPS and FedEx since they are the once who are

With a fast changing supply chain in the 21st century, companies need an effective delivery system, which attract new customers daily, and keep the current customers happy with their current service. Amazon is a very popular ecommerce company that delivers thousands of products daily. In the past few years, they have been trying to develop drone technology that could account for a large portion of their deliveries which would also provide substantial cost savings. I will discuss all of the benefits along with the drone technology system that Amazon hopes to put in place in the near future.

Amazon faces threats that the company cannot ignore. First, the company has competition from various rivals, which include Salesforce.com, eBay, Wal-Mart stores, Best Buy, Apple, Netflix, International Business Machines, Barnes and Nobles, among many others. For example, Wal-Mart introduced a shipping policy to compete with Amazon’s Prime membership service. With this new policy, customers receive free two-day shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Second, cybercrime is present and Amazon should find ways to ensure that it always guarantees that customer privacy and security are protected.