Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
by onetimemanytime on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:31PM
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OK, you have your drone and fly it over your home. But me and my kid are playing in our backyard. Do I have the right of privacy? And, what if your drone smashes in my head? Unless you own a 10,000 acre ranch...they are legitimate concerns. What we do about it is the question.
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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
by leetcrew on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:39PM
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> me and my kid are playing in our backyard. Do I have the right of privacy?
you probably have a right not to be filmed for commercial purposes, if at all. however, I don't think you have some fundamental right not to be looked at by people who have line of sight or to ban any equipment that might give them that. even if drones didn't exist, I could fly a plane at a legal height and look at your backyard through a telescope or from a nearby hill.
Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
by brodsky on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:48PM
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in addition to the sibling reply,
> Unless you own a 10,000 acre ranch....
this is precisely the point. EVEN if you own a 10,000 acre ranch in the middle of nowhere, the regulations technically prohibit you to fly a small hobbyist aircraft around your own property. Does that sound reasonable?