New York Police Will Use Drones To Monitor Backyard Parties This Weekend, Spurring Privacy Concerns
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
So this means I'm allowed to fly my drone over prison yards then, right?
Edit: Also, doesn't that then make it legal for folks to capture the drones? It's on their property.
Wait, we don't own our property airspace? So then, and I'm not being facetious, the entire plot of the 2010 film Burlesque is complete bullshit?
I figured a drone over a prison was a no and I was just being humorous but the citizen's lack of property airspace sucks. I get it for like a mile above your house because of planes, but drone height? That's stupid.
What if the drone touches the ground or a surface that connects to the ground like a rooftop? Is it fair game then?
In dystopia authoritarian China, the police fly drones over citizens having weekend parties on their own property.
What are they even looking for?
I honestly don't know. Maybe they could equipt them with powerful microphones that can record the conversations of the people below. They would help with putting a stop to thought crime. The police could then use automated speech analysis to determine if you are comiting thought crime and activate the appropriate response.
Afyer the initial reponse they could remove the person and their friends and family from society. It would be a challenging task updating the records to show that these terrorists never existed. You would also need to make sure that the people around are aware that there own memories are wrong.
They don't have a specific objective, and that's the problem.
Political organizers
Did you even read the article?
This is the one time Americans could put their guns to good use...
Cory Doctorow was right.
Abolish the NYPD
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.
The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance
“It’s a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” said Daniel Schwarz, a privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to a 2020 city law that requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics.
The move was announced during a security briefing focused on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery that brings thousands of revelers and a heavy police presence to the streets of Brooklyn.
But as the technology proliferates, privacy advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.
Cahn, the privacy advocate, said city officials should be more transparent with the public about how police are currently using drones, with clear guardrails that prevent surveillance overreach in the future.
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