from Bloomberg.com
As billionaires and dealmakers descend upon Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Allen & Co. media conference that kicked off today, security personnel are on the lookout for a new kind of threat: drones.
Event staff are watching the skies for unmanned aerial vehicles that could photograph, harass or harm attendees at the annual gathering of business executives, according to two people familiar with the plans who asked not to be named. While scouts have monitored for remote-controlled drones at previous Allen & Co. events, they’re more prevalent this year as the flying gizmos become increasingly commonplace, said one of the people, a security official who sought anonymity because the measures are private.
Jack Sibbach, director of public relations at Sun Valley Resort, referred inquiries to MSA Security, which was hired for the event. A spokesman for MSA Security declined to comment. Herb Allen III, Allen & Co.’s president and CEO, didn’t respond to a phone message left at his New York office.
Sun Valley draws some of the biggest names in technology and media, and this year’s guest list includes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Google’s Eric Schmidt, all of whose companies have been investing in drone technology. So far, we’ve spotted Twitter’s Dick Costolo, LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner, AOL’s Tim Armstrong and Greylock Partners venture capitalist Reid Hoffman.
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