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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by striking on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:50PM (#10406486)
But then again, what if people start harvesting people's identities from the drones through the identifier? I think it's a neat idea, but it straddles the 4th Amendment line and could potentially expose your identity to people who don't like drones.
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by objclxt on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:17PM (#10406562)
...really? Because both aircraft and road vehicles today have identifiers painted or printed on them. What about driving around with a license plate or flying with a tail number? What's the difference?
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by themartorana on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:14PM (#10407085)
Aircraft and cars kill people daily. Constantly. Cars more. Aircraft sometimes more tragically.
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by striking on Saturday October 17, 2015 @08:12PM (#10406718)
It would make sense to expose an identifier, rather than the person's identity. I may have misunderstood the comment.
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by shoegumfoot on Sunday October 18, 2015 @11:58AM (#10408561)
Would it be correct to think that you would be shocked to learn that the FAA has a publicly-accessible aircraft registration database?

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx

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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by Spooky23 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:30PM (#10406607)
You don't have a right to privacy in public spaces. You can be a weirdo and wear a baclava and only travel by foot or use cash to use public transit, but that behavior in itself de-anonymizes you.
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by jnbiche on Sunday October 18, 2015 @02:19AM (#10407391)
Yum, baclava! Or perhaps you're thinking of a "balaclava"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava_(clothing)

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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by Spooky23 on Sunday October 18, 2015 @02:07PM (#10409081)
Haha autocorrect strikes again! Walking around with baclava would make you popular if you shared though!
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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by resoluteteeth on Sunday October 18, 2015 @04:00PM (#10409552)
> You can be a weirdo and wear a [balaclava]

That's actually illegal in Virginia: http://law.justia.com/codes/virginia/2006/toc1802000/18.2-42...

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Re:U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered by mschuster91 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:17PM (#10406564)
Well if you're flying a real plane or copter, you have its registration number widely visible. No difference there.
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