If Spying Drones are

If Spying Drones are Getting You Down Here’s How to Fight BackI love drones and have owned many of them over the past few years. Such fantastic little flying machines revolutionized the film industry and made aerial imaging and photography available to virtually all. We are also ready to start delivering packages. So the drones will make our lives better and safer in many ways. The dark side of drone technology is it gives corporations and individual governments that can use drones to gather information about you. Is there anything you can do to discourage or combat drone spying? Let’s look at what available options.

Read Up on Local Laws “3/3.526.jpg” Drones were pretty disruptive, and governments were slow to come up with legislation to regulate their uses. For the most part these laws focused first on aviation safety. For example, in the US, the FAA has established a series of regulations to ensure drones do not cause aircraft accidents or fly into or over power lines. Laws regulating drones have been slower to come out in terms of privacy. It’s highly recommended that you do some research for your own country or local area on drone privacy laws. Find out what your rights are and what those rights are not allowed. Because these laws are currently being discussed you should also keep tabs on which laws are likely to come into force. Just because you don’t have specific drone laws in place in your country or state that doesn’t mean everything is lost. Many anti-surveillance and privacy laws could already apply to the sorts of spying that drone technology can do.

“3/3.527.jpg” Because a drone is basically just a faceless flying robot it is not easy to figure out what it is doing. Just because a drone is around doesn’t mean it spies on you. Obviously, if the machine hovers inches from the window of your bedroom, things are not as obvious as they ought to be. But if a drone flies high above your property, spying on you is unlikely. Individual people are not identifiable at those heights and for some innocent reason it probably gets footage.

Do not shoot them down “3/3.528.jpg” Some people used firearms like shotguns to drive down drones that they see flying over their property. While becoming a drone hunter in this fashion might be tempting you can get in a lot of trouble. It may be illegal to discharge a firearm in an urban area, depending on where you live, unless that is for one of several very specific reasons. You may even end up having to pay the bill for the fallen drone depending on the laws where you live. Rather than taking the law into your own hands, it is better to call in the authorities.

Anti-drone arms are likely to be illegalIf you are being filmed by a drone and you don’t like it you should start filming it back immediately. Take pictures, and take a video. There are a few grounds for doing this. Your images that show a serial number of FAA stickers with registration. It’ll also help confirm the drone’s make and model. Mostly it’s a way to give evidence of what the drone was doing, so you can get your case right

1. Cambridge Analytica and Facebook (2018)

“3/3.537.jpg” Figure 1 Turner Image Courtesy In short, an independent company managed to scrap personal information from approximately 50 million Facebook accounts using their API. Worse still, there is speculation that this information might have influenced the US elections where Donald Trump became president. That massive

1. Cambridge Analytica and Facebook (2018)

“3/3.537.jpg” Figure 1 Turner Image Courtesy In short, an independent company managed to scrap personal information from approximately 50 million Facebook accounts using their API. Worse still, there is speculation that this information might have influenced the US elections where Donald Trump became president. That massiveRecords Not Worth Breaking

While they are hard to celebrate, it’s easy to be awed by the scope and audaciousness of these breaches. None of these breaches will ever get topped in a perfect world. We can only hope that security practices and privacy will reach the point where major breaches are a thing of the past. Nevertheless the group of hackers never sleeps and there is no such thing as an unhackable device.