Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Walgreens

Re:Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Wal... by fovc on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:20PM (#21022454)

In a legal studies class I took we compared two cases taking about (IRRC) unreasonable searches. In one, a police officer walking a beat saw some drugs/guns/etc. through a window and promptly got a warrant for a search. In another, the police "happened to be doing some aerial photography" over a weed farm and thence got a warrant etc. IIRC, the former was fine, the latter wasn't, basically because of the definitions of "ordinary" or something like that.

Obviously IAMNL, YMMV, etc., but the legal system does care about degree of normalcy.

Ps: if someone can better fill in the details I'm sure these are commonly studied cases and that I've butchered the facts. Please correct me!

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Re:Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Wal... by tantalor on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:51PM (#21022616)

Aerial imagery over a farm might be unusual, but it's common in urban environments.

https://www.appgeo.com/maps-pointers/google-now-selling-aeri...

Since around 2011 Google has been flying its own missions to collect 6 inch (15 cm) pixel imagery across the entire United States... goal is to have nationwide imagery that is no older than three years old everywhere, and to have imagery that is no older than one year in the largest metropolitan regions in the USA

Eagleview and Nearmap are other companies doing the same thing.

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