tinsmithAug 27, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
No one should have to worry about warrantless police drones spying on their backyard sunbathing.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/backyard-privacy-age-drones
#drones #privacy
Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones

Police departments and law enforcement agencies are increasingly collecting personal information using drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to high-resolution photographic and video cameras, police drones may be equipped with myriad spying payloads, such as live-video transmitters, thermal imaging, heat sensors, mapping technology, automated license plate readers, cell site simulators, cell phone signal interceptors and other technologies.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Aug 27, 2024 at 5:00pmWeb
Show threadTreitnerAug 27, 2024

@eff
https://polizei.nrw/artikel/unterstuetzung-aus-der-luft-drohnen-ermoeglichen-der-polizei-nrw-ganz-neue-perspektiven
"Support from the air: #drones open up completely new perspectives for the NRW #police
From 2021, the North Rhine-Westphalian police will initially be equipped with 76 drones in the areas of forensic investigation centres, the crime scene surveying group of the #State #Office of #Criminal #Investigation and the riot police. In a next step, a further 30 drones will be procured for the #traffic #accident #investigation #teams.

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Unterstützung aus der Luft: Drohnen ermöglichen der Polizei NRW ganz neue Perspektiven

Die nordrhein-westfälische Polizei wird ab 2021 mit zunächst 76 Drohnen in den Bereichen der Kriminaltechnischen Untersuchungsstellen, der Tatortvermessungsgruppe des Landeskriminalamtes und der Bereitschaftspolizei ausgestattet. In einem nächsten Schritt werden für die Verkehrsunfallaufnahme-Teams weitere 30 Drohnen beschafft.

Show thread̶s̶e̶t̶h̶ ̶ ̶Aug 27, 2024
@eff Can you get a warrant to spy on backyard sunbathers? 👙
Show threadMastodon MigrationAug 27, 2024

@eff

Didn't we see this science fiction movie? Can't remember how it ended.

Show threadSteve YelvingtonAug 27, 2024

@eff

Years ago when I worked in Champaign-Urbana, the local cops routinely reported "deer sightings" over police radio to alert other officers of female students sunbathing.

Show threadMegatronicThronBanksAug 27, 2024
@eff This one ends with anonymous drones shooting down the official government ones. That in turn will become a problem that the government will "Crack down on any day now!" .... "any day now" ....
Show threadDeterioratedStuccoAug 27, 2024
@eff
IIRC there is at least one recorded case of a (piloted!) microlight being shot down by an annoyed nude sunbather. In South Africa, IIRC, probably 1990-ish.