To my knowledge, no law was broken. A drone is no different from a camera in a car driving down the street looking into uncurtained windows
“Google Window”
coming soon. When the Street View just isn’t invasive enough.
Yep...That would be hard to even spot from a law enforcement standpoint, much less be a reason to stop and make contact with someone doing that activity...
I believe the perceive threat of unwarranted or unwanted observation by this technology is what has people panties in a wad...And in most cases they would be right to be concerned...
The fact that these guys/gals who were flying this device might have been just flying it around and it happened to get stuck in an area and the appearances of “peeping” (voyeurism is in some areas a crime to a certain degree), is a big concern with the use of this technology...
And, for the record...If you find yourself doing something that you consider to be “private”, or compromising??? Close the shades/blinds!!!
Otherwise, an idea just popped into muh mind, yeah, I know, it happens from time to time...
You know how restaurants put up fishing monofilament line in grids around their outside dining areas??? To ward off bombing runs by birds???
That might be a good idea for private property owners, a static defense mechanism for just such a finite and commercially available technology...
Just shooting from the hip here...
The government claims they can use thermal sensors to look through your walls with no privacy violations.
Curtains don’t provide much protection against prying eyes.
I believe that we need pictorial evidence of whether this potential privacy intrusion was lawful or not...