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My concern is less the occasional drone and more when Google decides that all their delivery drones - already carrying cameras/radar/lidar for navigational purposes - can be used to update google maps in near realtime.

The sheer Big Brother possibilities are insane.

The future: "saferoom is where the pants aren't"



I live in Iowa where the governor just signed a bill that outlaws drone surveillance of private farms and farmland. I haven't read the full bill yet, so it's possible that it also outlaws surveillance of homes that aren't on farmland, but would at least be illegal to do what you're describing if you own a farm in Iowa.


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I’ll never understand people who oppose new technology because it could hypothetically be used a negative way. These people just seem to have a chronically cynical outlook on everything.

The logical thing to do is to regulate things when they become a problem, not speculatively.


The history (and tort law) books are full of examples of problems that were identified ahead of time but ignored by policymakers and tortfeasors until they had fatal consequences.


If we didn't have people like that, then they would be right.


they’ve probably read more history than your average bear


Idk how you can think this is the reasonable take given any familiarity with history...




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