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I know the US isn't big on privacy, but a closed off backyard? Isn't this the definition of reasonable expectation of privacy? I mean, let's say his children we
by V__ 3y ago
I know the US isn't big on privacy, but a closed off backyard? Isn't this the definition of reasonable expectation of privacy? I mean, let's say his children were running around naked while the insurance company would have filmed them.
- bell-cot 3y agoIANAL...but between all the legal language in the average American property insurance policy, plus all the laws which the insurance industry (& friends) have "encouraged" our politicians to pass, I'd bet "no" on the privacy.
- JohnFen 3y agoA major city near me regularly flies small aircraft (and now, drones) over private property in order to find construction being done without a permit. They've been doing this since at least the 80s. Just saying that this sort of thing is far from new.
- marcosdumay 3y agoMy country allows cities to fly aircraft looking for pools of untreated water, and the police has automatic powers to enter a property if they find any. And neither your nor my example are nearly as problematic as the article. The article is an entirely new class of bad.
- squokko 3y agoIn the US, anyone is permitted to fly anywhere in unrestricted airspace, and anything in view of public property is considered to have no expectation of privacy.
- V__ 3y agoIf it's a fenced off backyard, it's not in view of public property.
- CrimsonRain 3y agocover the top then?
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- LorenPechtel 3y agoThere are lots of eyes in the sky these days--I don't think you really have an expectation of privacy in such a situation. (I would, however, say you are not guilty of indecent exposure or lewd and lascivious behavior--that requires you to have committed said acts where an unaided passerby could see.)
- astura 3y agoNo, that's silly, anyone in the universe can see the contents on my backyard on Google Maps, Big Maps, etc.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoYou won't see much more than tree tops in ours, but I agree with the basic concept.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThere are plenty of radar satellites nowadays that penetrate through foliage.