““It is truly an invasion of privacy,” said Chuck Folken, who runs a farm and cattle feedlot in Leigh, Neb. Farmers worry about photos of private homes and back yards winding up in government files. “We don’t need our own government . . . flying over us, taking pictures of us, telling us what we’re doing wrong.””

For fuck’s sake.

The USDA has been flying over your farm and taking nice aerial photos as part of the National Aerial Imagery Program for years.

Before that it was the USGS as part of the Digital Ortho Quarter Quad program.

And of course, the Aqua and Terra satellites fly over every 6 hours.