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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky man shoots down drone hovering over his backyard [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)they already apply, to a limited extent, to devices that extend recording into someone's home when there is expectation of privacy, even when you are not technically on their property. For example, telescopes focused inside homes, trying to work around privacy fences, etc.
So I think the homeone was fully justified in what he did, and I'm glad he had the foresight to not endanger his neighbors, by using the proper type of ammo(also more likely to hit the drone as well).
As far as new laws, perhaps in protecting against recording and defining reasonable expectations of privacy more clearly.
Do I think drones are bad? No, I briefly(as in the bloody thing crashed), got an RC copter with built in digital camera from thinkgeek for free. I was able to briefly film the roof of my Dad's house before the wind kicked up and the thing smashed into a tree, hard. The camera broke off, was able to salvage the SD card.
That is my one annoyance, people are talking "drone this" and "drone that". Uhm, we used to just call them RC copters. They are more stable and user friendly nowadays, in addition to smaller, but that's all they are, RC quadcopters with cameras attached.
What I would like is a fully programmable, autonomous quadcopter that I can give a path for it to fly and have it return on its own, now that would be a true drone.