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72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
(www.techspot.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Good aim! The privacy concern with these things is real. The full opportunity is now there to have these fly up to your window and look into your house. Hard pass on drone deliveries.
Drones can also carry weapons, biohazards, waste, endless possibilities of exploitation, imho.
How is this different from a delivery person looking in your window when they drop off something to your house? Can a delivery person also just as easily "carry weapons, biohazards, waste"? Why would a drone want to carry those things? Why would Walmart want a drone to carry those things and cause harm, as you seem to be implying here, to their customers? A drone company can be regulated and audited to make sure privacy laws are being followed.
Will an infraction occur with a drone? Probably. And then people will have grounds to sue and laws will be built to protect people and their privacy (I hope!).
Drone delivery is coming - how do you want to see this tech being used responsibly?
I don’t see it. We are now in crazyland times where the rule of law somehow doesn’t seem to apply any longer. Read the news headlines if in doubt.