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Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws

Posted by Soulskill on from the looking-for-that-silver-lining dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever been spied on by a surveillance drone? No? Are you sure? Maybe it looked like a hummingbird. Or an insect. Or maybe it was just really high up. Maybe there's one looking in your window right now, and if so, there's no law that says it shouldn't. In a recent article in the Stanford Law Review, Ryan Calo discusses how domestic surveillance drones would fit into the current legal definitions of privacy (and violations thereof), and how these issues could inform the future of privacy policy. The nutshell? Surveillance robots have the potential to fundamentally degrade privacy to such an extent that they could serve as a catalyst for reform."

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  1. The message gets lost in that summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have you ever been spied on by a surveillance drone? No? Are you sure? Maybe it looked like a hummingbird. Or an insect. Or maybe it was just really high up.

    Okay, seriously, maybe this IS a serious issue, and maybe it's more important than just more bullshit analogies involving frogs and boiling water. Maybe.

    But if it IS that important, could you maybe try leading off with something that WON'T be guaranteed to be ignored as textbook tinfoil hat rambling? Or has Slashdot really sunk so far as to be a blatantly obvious echo chamber for the paranoids and TRUST NOBODY ZOMG crowd?

  2. Re:Frog metaphor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The frog-in-boiling-water myth.