The Issue Surrounding Drones In recent years technology has advanced dramatically giving birth to many inventions like the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or also called a “Drone.” Humans have been trying to use unmanned flying objects for around 150 years beginning with the first recorded account being in Venice when Austria sent unmanned balloons filled with bombs to attack the city. The attack was primitive but opened doors to the possibilities of unmanned flight to mankind. The argument that drones can make everyday life easier has already proven itself to be true through the facts that if a drone can do a job that is dangerous or time consuming, the person that had to do the job no longer has to risk their safety or waste time that could …show more content…
Drones are gaining so much popularity that it is becoming increasingly harder to attend something as nonchalant as a large public event like a festival and not spot one or two in the air taking either pictures or video footage. Before, if aerial footage was desired for a particular festival or event, it would have taken a pilot and a plane or blimp to fly a photographer around the site and back to the airport. Having a drone on hand without having to hire a pilot and getting the same job done for a fraction of the cost is obviously the better and more efficient scenario. Anna Mulrine, a staff reporter for the Christian Science Monitor newspaper …show more content…
With the rise of civilian use, it is possible that drones could be invading the privacy of others. It would not be very hard for a civilian with an ulterior motive to go and buy a small cheap drone mounted with a surveillance camera at an online website or even at a local technology hobby store. Just this week I saw a commercial on television advertising a small drone with a mounted camera, which was a toy targeted for adolescence use. Drones are practically in the hands of whoever desires to own one. Anyone could theoretically buy a drone and use it to unlawfully watch people in their homes. Unfortunately, “peeping-tom” drones have been spotted outside the windows of unsuspecting citizens recently. Mary-Ann Russon, a technology reporter for the International Business Times UK reported on a case just last month where a woman, Christina Daw, “was sitting in her living room on Wednesday 9 September (2015) when she spotted a dark blue drone bearing a camera hovering outside her window.” The idea that anyone could simply buy a drone to essentially “peep” into a private residence is completely unsettling. What makes Daw’s case rather interesting is the fact that the police did “not have enough information to be able to identify the offending person,” according to a spokesperson for that particular police department. The largest problem with law