“Using technology to spy into people’s homes is no different than entering their home”
They can use binoculars to scan my windows (with shades drawn, if needed), but don’t smash in my front door with a ram followed by a swat team.
There IS a whole lot of difference there!
Other than a 90 degree (or thereabouts) change in azimuth of observation, there is not much difference between a police car cruising down the street in front of your house and a drone flying over it.
Unless you are sunbathing nude in your fenced back yard. (Not really a good idea. Some teenager with a quad-copter will have the video on YouTube before your sunburns starts to hurt!)
;-)
Oddly enough there are things that are completely legal in private but illegal in public.
What happens when there is no private?
Except that what we are talking about here is a technology that will enable the government to park an invisible police car outside your house and watch (and record) it continuously, and to simultaneously track (and record) everywhere you go when you leave it.
There’s the rub right there...SHOULDN’T
Now, as for ‘drone’ vs. ‘cruiser’: There’s a reason I put up a PRIVACY fence. A cop can only see up the boundaries I may put up, a drone does so much more.
Soon we’ll all be reading of the great new high-tech gadgets mounted on said drones. Infrared, sonar, electronic surveillance, etc. Even the cops are not allowed to use those wall penetrating ‘viewers’.
How soon before it becomes a crime to shield your home from the outside world....You know, ‘if you have nothing to hide....’
I agree. When I see “no different than” statements I usually disregard them because there there are almost always differences.
“Unless you are sunbathing nude in your fenced back yard. (Not really a good idea. Some teenager with a quad-copter will have the video on YouTube before your sunburns starts to hurt!)”
BOL! Even pre teeners might do the scanning.
The technology might be more sophisticated than you think.
“Other than a 90 degree (or thereabouts) change in azimuth of observation, there is not much difference between a police car cruising down the street in front of your house and a drone flying over it.”
When drones are regularly equipped with thermal imaging equipment that can see right through you fences, window shades, and walls, then there is a world of difference.