SHOCKING NEWS: Anyone can fly a drone over a school.
This is a quick post about some disturbing information about drones that my daughter just discovered. You all need to hear this!
This is a quick post about some disturbing information about drones that my daughter just discovered. You all need to hear this!
There is an individual who sits in the local park and flies a drone over the adjacent elementary school while children are playing on the playground. When he does this, teachers take the kids inside as a precaution. Who is this person? Why is he regularly flying a drone over a school and presumably taking photos? No one knows.
It seems incredible that anyone is allowed to do this. A sex offender could do this. A terrorist could do this. The drone this person flies is small, but it is still easy to spot. Drones can be as small as insects. And they can do all kinds of terrifying things.
I wrote about drones in Age of Drones. Please read it if you haven’t. The article was also published in ZeroHedge.
In that article, I inform readers about a government patent to create armies of drones of all shapes and sizes, down to the smallest gnat, working together in a “swarm” to take samples, administer drugs and regulate the health and behavior of ordinary citizens.
That the government is doing this is bad enough. Imagine what a disturbed tech-savvy kid could do with a drone—a tiny drone he flies through an open window while you and your children are sleeping, and you never know.
A friend who lives in nearby Ojai was telling me how nosey residents now fly drones over their neighbors’ houses, reporting on people who do things like leave their garbage bins out one minute too long. It’s annoying, but how far will it go?
There are Federal, State and local laws relating to drones, so the matter is complex, and laws differ depending on where you live. But there should be uniform laws that prohibit this. Of course, the scariest part is how small these drones can be and how easy they are to obtain.
My daughter is an attorney and one of my grandsons attends this school, so you can be sure she is looking into it.
This takes my breath away. If I had children in that school, I would be outraged. As it is, I'm deeply disturbed by this.
Ten years ago, I would have said "Who cares?", thinking back to my teenage days when friends would fly radio controlled (RC) model planes in the park or open fields. It was fun, educational, somewhat noisy, but otherwise harmless.
Of course, in those days, it was a hobby limited to a few enthusiasts. More importantly, there was no such thing as digital cameras that could be used to invade the privacy of others.
Sad that technology is painting us all into corners where the boundary between leisure activity gets blurred with espionage or worse.