Forbes: Look To States, Not Just Courts, For Drone Privacy Protections

Forbes: Look To States, Not Just Courts, For Drone Privacy Protections by Matthew Feeney:

Raymond Nhan argued in a recent post at the Pacific Legal Foundation’s blog that as things stand, “there is no clear answer as to the question whether the use of a drone to examine someone’s property would require a warrant.” (Although some states have passed drone warrant requirements.) This ambiguity is in part thanks to Supreme Court precedent that predates the emergence of widely available drones. When judges are faced with questions related to police drones and the Fourth Amendment in the inevitable lawsuits to come it would be worth them remembering, as Nhan points out, “that Fourth Amendment protections are highest in one’s own home.” However, it’s also worth us keeping in mind that courts are not the only entities that can reconsider privacy in the age of the drone.