NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free

Zothecula writes About the only thing growing quicker than the number of privately owned drones is the level of concern surrounding them. Questions of privacy and how these things can be regulated are pretty well-founded, but are so far yet to be met with any convincing answers. NoFlyZone.org may go some way to providing a solution, allowing users to enter their address to create drone-free zones in the airspace over their homes.

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Re:Do they have any authority to do that?

[NotDrWho]

I suspect that NoFlyZone is just a front for a bunch of lawyers looking to file a class action lawsuit. Just look at their methodology. They gather a bunch of names and submit this to the manufacturers of these drones. Then if the manufacturers don't somehow comply (I'm not even sure how they're supposed to), then that opens them up to a class action from said requesters.

Reminds me of those groups in NYC that lawyers used to hire to go around and document cracks in the city sidewalks. Ostensibly they were supposed to be serving the public good. In actuality, they were just a front that was providing a database for lawyers to use to sue the city anytime someone tripped on a crack.

Re:Do they have any authority to do that?

[tverbeek]

It's a "solution" that only a libertarian would think is workable. Instead of enforceable government regulation, it's a voluntary opt-in system run by a private entity, which will work because all people are "rational actors" who will see that their self-interest is served by it. Or something.