New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
apnews.comThose attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone.
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This is the one time Americans could put their guns to good use…
Abolish the NYPD
Cory Doctorow was right.
What are they even looking for?
Political organizers
Did you even read the article?
What does “check on” mean? It really doesn’t say what they’re looking for, just an arbitrary description of “large crowd”.
The cops will show up, drink all your bud light, eat a few burgers, and taze your grandmother.
Best way to prevent this is to just not allow shitty beer at your party.
The party will just be aborted and stopped. Obviously…
Like, if there was a restrictions to how large a party can be (say in response to the current wave of COVID cases), this would make sense.
I disagree with this being a reasonable measure, but at least it would make sense as to why they want to do it, ya know?
As it is, it sounds like NYPD is just trying to use all their budget so they don’t lose it next year or whatever.
Check-on and stop are not the same. Why do you need a drone if you’re going to stop the party?
I don’t think we should allow those drones in the first place to be honest. The west is becoming more and more like China.
They don’t have a specific objective, and that’s the problem.
I honestly don’t know. Maybe they could equipt them with powerful microphones that can record the conversations of the people below. They would help with putting a stop to thought crime. The police could then use automated speech analysis to determine if you are comiting thought crime and activate the appropriate response.
Afyer the initial reponse they could remove the person and their friends and family from society. It would be a challenging task updating the records to show that these terrorists never existed. You would also need to make sure that the people around are aware that there own memories are wrong.
In dystopia authoritarian China, the police fly drones over citizens having weekend parties on their own property.
So this means I’m allowed to fly my drone over prison yards then, right?
Edit: Also, doesn’t that then make it legal for folks to capture the drones? It’s on their property.
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Wait, we don’t own our property airspace? So then, and I’m not being facetious, the entire plot of the 2010 film Burlesque is complete bullshit?
I figured a drone over a prison was a no and I was just being humorous but the citizen’s lack of property airspace sucks. I get it for like a mile above your house because of planes, but drone height? That’s stupid.
What if the drone touches the ground or a surface that connects to the ground like a rooftop? Is it fair game then?
Pretty sure you own ~100 feet above, 20 feet below and nothing further. If the police stay above a hundred feet then there’s no legal recourse for their spying. And now I’m going to read the article to learn why they’re spying on peoples’ 9/11 parties.
Edit: “an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery that brings thousands of revelers”
There is an expectation of privacy in the United States, and currently drones are in a legal grey area where case law hasn’t really been established yet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy_(United_States)
This is why the the ACLU recommends the following safeguards:
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My best guess is simply that it’s Labor Day weekend. People party a decent bit over it. And when people party, there’s a chance for cops to make some money, I mean arrests for dangerous dangerous crimes against society.
I ninja’d you. It’s black people. They deployed drones because of black people. If police weren’t so eager to fit their stereotype, this would almost be unexpected.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.
The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance
“It’s a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” said Daniel Schwarz, a privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to a 2020 city law that requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics.
The move was announced during a security briefing focused on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery that brings thousands of revelers and a heavy police presence to the streets of Brooklyn.
But as the technology proliferates, privacy advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.
Cahn, the privacy advocate, said city officials should be more transparent with the public about how police are currently using drones, with clear guardrails that prevent surveillance overreach in the future.
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