Drones coming to a space near you
This CNN story covers the rise in personal and commercial applications of drone technology - from real estate, to law enforcement, and search and rescue. You could even build your own if you knew what you were doing. It’s a technology like any other - it can be used for good or bad purposes. I’m sure those of you who are gun owners can relate. However, like most new technologies, the laws and regulations concerning such a tool always fall significantly behind the practical usage and application.
In scenarios such as this I wonder how the libertarians would go? It can be used as an infringing tool against our privacy, but federal regulation is to be avoided. Can we have an unregulated free market and yet regulate by whom and how robot eyes are used without reinforcing a big government approach? I’m not a hardcore libertarian because these are the areas where their philosophy verges from mine. I believe there are a number of things it makes sense to regulate at the federal level.
Either way, law enforcement and private companies will be using this more each year and they will be looking at things most of us feel are private. If a Peeping Tom is hovering 200 yards away but zooming in on your window with telescopic lenses, isn’t it the same scenario? I’ll be curious to see what happens when they start to get shot down.
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