Yes, the relevant regulations are about commercial use which is COMPLETELY backwards from a privacy standpoint. To answer your question, no, I don't want drone

Yes, the relevant regulations are about commercial use which is COMPLETELY backwards from a privacy standpoint. To answer your question, no, I don't want drones to not exist and it would not be worthwhile if I did. Since they obviously do and will continue to exist, we should be thinking about the privacy considerations first with regards to how you would restrict the government's use of drones and THEN go on to the commercial considerations with those same restrictions in mind. There's a little known set of 4th amendment jurisprudence attached to technology that says something along the lines of "if the public can't generally take advantage of the technology (have it be readily accessible to them), neither can law enforcement when executing a 'search'" - think super-accurate heat sensors that can essentially x-ray the interior of homes, etc...Well we are about to just hand an entire domain to them! In short: law enforcement is salivating at the thought of commercial drone use because they won't have any regulations applicable to them.