Originally Posted by
Stickslammer
Pertaining to quadcopters, not only is safety a big issue, there is also the privacy one. In reading some of the letters written by officials advocating restrictive measures, there are many instances of "peeping drones" affecting private citizens and corporate interests. Although a regular line of sight craft with some sophisticated camera equipment on board could also be used.
As to privacy , I believe our friend Stickslammer was speaking of drones being used to peep into private home's bedroom windows VS the kinds of electronic "Hacks" as mentioned by Jester and Speed . Everyone now knows to not go putting naked selfies on the Cloud , thanks to the young actress (can't recall her name) who was the subject of such a hack a year ago , and showed the world that even the rich & famous aren't immune from that type of electronic espionage . Back to Stickslammer's point the general public has already seen at least one high profile "peeping drone" case , the actor who stars on that "world's dirtiest jobs" show was peeped in his own home by a drone , I don't recall if that pilot/perp was ever caught or not ...