Thread: Drone attack
View Single Post
Old 08-27-15 | 10:51 PM
  #66  
Cyclosaurus's Avatar
Cyclosaurus
Senior Member
 
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,065
Likes: 3
From: Chicago Western 'burbs

Bikes: 1993 NOS Mt Shasta Tempest, Motobecane Fantom Cross CX, Dahon Speed D7, Dahon Vector P8, Bullitt Superfly

Originally Posted by Biker395
BTW ... The reason that case was dismissed in NY was because it required that those photos be used for commercial purposes. The Court wasn't thrilled about dismissing the case, and invited the Legislature to step in:



Within a month of that court decision in NY, the Legislature did just that:

Bills
Wow, is this some sort of jedi lawyer mind trick you're trying, where you prove the exact point I am making, then act like it shows you were right all along? If so, you may need to spend some more time channeling the Force because it's not working.

My point was that despite what you or the general public thinks invasion of privacy is, the law may say something very different. I'm pretty positive if I had asked you before the Arne Svenson case whether it was legal to take photos of people through their windows with a telephoto lens and then publicly display them, you would have said a definitive "no". Especially given that you think a much lesser activity, that being a gopro-equipped drone merely being in the airspace above your property, is also an invasion of privacy. Yet the court ruled very clearly that it was legal. Meaning what you and probably most people (including me) thought was an illegal invasion of privacy actually was not.

So...when you point out that the court said, hey our hands are tied here, and it required changes to the law to make such activity illegal, then you are making the same point as me. That what you are so sure is illegal actually may not be! That legislators are scrambling to patch a hole in the law does not mean the hole doesn't exist.
Cyclosaurus is offline  
Reply