Posted on 09/12/2014 12:30:24 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Americans should be more concerned about their privacy being invaded by the spread of drones, Justice Sonia Sotomayor told an Oklahoma City audience on Thursday.
Speaking before a group of faculty members and students at Oklahoma City University’s law school on Sept. 11, Justice Sotomayor said “frightening” changes in surveillance technology should encourage citizens to take a more active role in the privacy debate. She said she’s particularly troubled by the potential for commercial and government drones to compromise personal privacy.
Said Justice Sotomayor:
There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I don’t know…can pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property.
Technological advances make it possible for devices to “listen to your conversations from miles away and through your walls,” Justice Sotomayor said. “We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too.”
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I’m alarmed you got that cushy job, Sonia.
It where flys go when the get bored with obamawama
Read it more carefully.
The first two that showed up on the Supreme Court got my attention...
Wouldn’t you just love to see pipe bottle rockets with miniature EMP capabilities... say 50 foot radius.
I’m actually surprised that she included gov’t drones in with those to be concerned about.
Leftists inherently trust gov’t and all it does.
I’m more than uncomfortable with drones flying around recording stuff.
That said, law enforcement currently uses dash cams and some departments are putting cameras on officers. Many people believe dash cams and body cameras prevent abuse of power. In your opinion, are drones different because law enforcement is not physically present during the recording or because of a creepiness factor or what?
Media helicopters fly over, record, and broadcast “newsworthy” events. What if they decide to use drones?
No, no, you’re right. Allow open season on drones. Provide a reward for every shot down drone. I like it...
You beat me to it, though I admit, a flash of mental imagery entered my mind, and I threw up in my mouth just a little bit.
Spreading drone.
Very funny! Some folks just don’t like to agree, even a miniscule bit, with person from the other side of the political aisle for fear of catching their cooties.
But what’s right is right, never mind who says it.
Good points. Agreed. How do you feel about the media using drones for news coverage and commercial companies using them for product delivery?
I don’t think a private citizen should be able to fly a drone over my property regardless of his limited financial resources or legal culpability. If he were using a camera or cell phone, he’d have to trespass on my property to record. Same should apply to a drone, IMHO.
Agree.
I’m more alarmed by affirmative action-appointed judges
This high government official is worried about the threats to personal privacy but not the threat posed by the NSA and the Surveillance Prison Planet that her government is creating.
Government always protects government. Government only protects the citizen to the extent it advances government.
I’m more concerned with an ‘Hispanic Female’ given a job on the Supreme Court she didn’t earn.
The statists are worried that citizens with camera equipped RC helicopters (they’re not actually drones) are going to take pictures that the statists can’t control. Like Hillary Clinton said, ‘There’s too much freedom’, and it’s a threat to liberalism and socialism.
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