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Old 06-21-2012 | 04:22 AM
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Default RE: This should help bill requiring warrant for drones.


ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy

Nice bugsized drone.

Someone wanted to bring up the Causby deal,
ok, lets play the Causby game-

That Bugbot at 10000' clearly aint interfering with landowners use/enjoyment of their land.
Nor would the Bugbot interfere with enjoyment at 1000'.
Even at 400' it STILL aint bothering the landowner.
Now when we get down to 100', we gotta ask just how the landowner would even know it was there
seeing how the thing is dang near impossible to see at more than 20'.
So, if you cant even see or hear the Bugbot when it is 50' above your property, just how can the landowner say (per Causby) his use/enjoyment of his land is being imposed upon?

Sure we KNOW there are satellites looking at us from above, we know there are planes looking down at us, and we know even helicopters are looking at us from above... so why would it be any different for Bugbots looking down on us (from 50' rather than the satellites up in the orbitsphere). You know OF satellites looking at folks, but you cant tell if one is looking at you right now, just as you dont know if there is a Bugbot doing it or not.

So thats the deal with Causby,
folks cannot say at the same time that they are so obtrusive that property cant be enjoyed
while claiming they are so unnoticeable that folks cant tell if they are being spied on.
One of the parts of enjoying/use of land is privacy. This aspect is as important as any. That the government or other entities are already peeping in your windows does not make it any more of an excuse. Suppose a gang of men atttack you, does it make it <strike>legitimate</strike> right for another to join the party because you are already being beaten?Nope.