2y ago

New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns

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Is having a large party supposed to be illegal? Either way doesn't sending drones to someone's backyard constitute unwarranted search?
- What's visible from public spaces, including the air, is not considered a search of your persons, houses, papers, and effects. Or at least not an unreasonable search.
  
  So if I got a drone and live streamed some cops backyard pool party that'd be ok?
  
  So they can use thermal imaging from outside the house to watch the people inside? That's bs
  
  I'ma need to see a source for this claim.
  
  Your property rights do not stop at the ground. No one has the right to fly a drone over your property. There's just usually not much you can do about it.
If this is real, get those pop up tents or a tarp and make a cover. Fuck the police.
Nice of them to offer target practice.
- I know you're being facetious, but for anyone thinking seriously about this, shooting down aircraft, which drones are categorized as, is a Federal offense. Same with shining a laser at it, trying to jam its communications, or spoofing GPS to throw off its navigation.
  And if the cops are the ones operating the drone, they'll probably be highly incentivized to arrest and prosecute you.
  
  They gotta prove who did it though.
I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to be a warning, not a blueprint.
- The quote from Mike Pondsmith, the creator of Cyberpunk -- the TTRPG 2077 is based on -- is "'Cyberpunk' is a warning, not an aspiration".
  https://stevivor.com/news/mike-pondsmith-says-cyberpunk-warning-not-aspiration/
Shoot the drones down. Air compressors and PVC piping can create effective and legal anti air flak guns.
- Yes, the police famously don’t care if you shoot down their camera and gps equipped drones.
- The not-a-firearm might not be illegal to have but destroying police property is still going to ruffle feathers.
- Cheap paintball gun would probably easily gum up the works on a drones propellers with a couple shots. At least throw off the balance enough for it to go down, or at worst cover up the camera lens.
News on Monday: NYPD to prosecute those who shot down drones Wich were in their backyards.
How many people can NYC muster to all drop trow and moon a drone? Is it indecent exposure if the only way to see it is a fuckin spy drone? BUTTS OUT!
This would be against the 4th amendment. We don't need law enforcement peeking into our yards.
Well, at least this song aged well
- Why, oh why must you swoop through the hood like everybody from the hood is up to no good?
The government has already been doing this on a larger scale with higher altitudes. It's funny nobody seems to care as long as they can't see the drones but once they're low enough to be visible watch everyone lose their minds.
I need to make a meme about how Watch_Dogs was a warning not a manual.

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