FEINSTEIN: 'There's a drone facing me'

[kpete]

“When is a drone picture a benefit to society? When does it become stalking? When does it invade privacy? How close to a home can a drone go?” Feinstein asked.

Feinstein speaks from personal experience, she said. Feinstein said she was recently confronted by a drone operated by demonstrators protesting against government surveillance outside her home.

“I'm in my home and there's a demonstration out front. And I go to peek out the window and there's a drone facing me,” Feinstein said. “Well, whoever was running it turned it around quickly and it crashed.”

“The privacy concerns are very, very major,” Feinstein said.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/technology/200958-feinstein-cites-privacy-in-push-for-drone-regulations#ixzz2wEYsuefU

[KoKo]

1. This is a situation where targeted activism seems to have produced results...

I wonder if the drone operator was arrested for encroaching on a Senator's Property and doing a Peeping Tom?

[reformist2]

2. It's Shutterbug Time!

[MADem]

3. It wasn't actually a drone. It was a radio-operated toy.

One of those little toy helos that have been available in the toy and hobby shops for eons.

That said, drones--or remotely piloted vehicles, or unmanned aerial vehicles--are HERE. They aren't going away, they are going to be commercialized and civilianized, and future generations won't be freaked out by them like we are.

60 Minutes did a piece on them last night. I only caught a portion of it (I did catch Feinstein's comments, which are repeated in the article); one of the interesting things that they showed was a pilotless life flight helo--now THAT is a paradigm shift.

The legislation of the things is lagging way behind the technology.