All of this leads us to another of today's discussion points: Human vs individual "rights".
Which is personal privacy?

One must distinguish between surveillance and photography drones and delivery drones. Amazon.com hopes to drone-fly instant shipments to their Amazon Prime customers within a year, or not much longer. Single-family residential owners can, of course, lay down a landing pad. But who defines the airspace through which a delivery drone may fly? I imagine the same kind of authority, or owner-operator, who owns and runs streets and roads.

Then, too: apartment landlords will have to decide quickly whether they're going to restrict delivery drone activity that serves their tenants. Drone allowances will become a selling point for apartment hunters--and in an age when single-family residential living gives way to apartment or townhouse tenancy, that becomes increasingly relevant. (The total cost of ownership exceeds the total cost of tenancy for comparable dwelling space, especially when you include either (a) the mortgage, or (b) opportunity lost from having investment capital tied up as home equity.)

Imagine: an Amazon Prime customer spreads a landing pad on the patio or balcony attached to his unit. But on the way, the drone drops the shipment, BONK! on someone else's head. Who's liable?

Now, the NSA is quite certain you have a gun. And...you are good with it.

The use of privately owned drones stops at my property line. The use of drones equipped with cameras stops at the range of the camera. Due to drones and intrusive electronics, the right to privacy is being eroded so completely that soon there will be a right to privacy even though privacy will no longer exist.

If I were to dream up a new money making enterprise, it would be to devise a way to void intrusive devices. With such a product, the demand would be quite high. I offer this idea freely and for only 10% of the net.

What about February 29? :-)

Go to an open field, (with permission) or your own property...just like model airplane enthusiasts do.

Then...if you do see one hovering over your house or in your window, you can assume it's government...and shoot it down.

An anti-drone drone circles the Fivedollargold compound 24/7/365.

Someone flies a drone within a certain height above my house, I shoot it down.

Funny and fair, to a point. There is a simple test for security camera systems - if you can see the camera, the camera can see you. But what happens when the drone is too far away to be seen or heard? Or targeted with any hope of accuracy? Camera and flight technology will advance to that point so we need to think about the legal framework now.

I agree, at some point it becomes an obvious invasion of property and privacy. That's not the issue.
As technology advances, when a homeowner can't even perceive of a drone within eyesight or earshot, yet it can look at you in your yard or through your window, this needs some help for us to figure things out. Those of us who respect property and privacy won't be the problem. It's the other people we have to worry about.

Invading your neighbor's airspace at, say, 20 feet off the ground would be considered trespassing by most private property advocates. But the spying vs. privacy arguments become more complicated when your drone is flying 150 feet above the ground, on your side of the property line, equipped with a high-resolution camera and a zoom lens.

Too bad Ayn Rand never addressed this issue. :-)

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