• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    So you know that guy who tracks elon Musk’s jet? Do we have an equivalent for billionaire’s yachts?

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    7 months ago

    I wait for one of these systems to interfere with a legal drone operation or better some other radio/radar systems. Some countries will ignore it,but other very very much will not. And that will be a very happy day for me.

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    7 months ago

    I mean the rich yacht owners have a reason to be afraid.

    Its not difficult to build a drone with an explosive payload used to sink ships. And attacking rich people with violence is so hot right now

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    7 months ago

    that quarter-billion dollar-plus superyachts, and the VIPs who own and cruise in them, may be vulnerable.

    Then don’t cruise in them but instead sit in a bunker like you deserve or alternatively, don’t be a rich shoddy.

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        7 months ago

        And the billionaires like Zuckerberg that make a lot of money trying to track you everywhere you go on the internet or with your cellphone factor into that statement where?

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            When anyone else has an actual right to privacy I’ll give a shit about Zuckerberg’s – who btw has done more to destroy privacy rights than perhaps any other human being in history – “right to privacy”.

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              7 months ago

              I know who he his 🙄 It doen’t change the fact that equalling all rich people to bad people is counterproductive. And human rights apply to all humans, except if what you mean by the lack of privacy ls that he should go to prision, to which I agree

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        7 months ago

        “Privacy for me, not for thee” means I, as a non-billionaire, get my privacy back before I give one iota about some billionaire not being able to hide a mistress on his super yacht.

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      7 months ago

      Seems these systems don’t need to shoot. It has interceptor drones. These can fly into the spy drone, so the rich guy can just claim it was a mid-air collision and offer to pay back the owner if they just identify themselves.

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      7 months ago

      The thing is though, if a drone is spying on you the police have to do something about it. And if they can’t or won’t then you document everything and when they show up saying you did something, you tell them “so you found the guy who’s been stalking me via drone?” /S for obvious reasons, but these laws are going to have to change sooner rather than later because there’s a lot going on that technically isn’t legal with drones but can’t be prosecuted by the legal system because of this law.

      Add that to the military airspace drones keep violating (not under FAA jurisdiction) and eventually this is going to be a problem that the government can’t ignore.

      • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        Interesting I dig up a bit for Europe :

        France

        https://www.mondrone.net/drones/peut-on-abattre-un-drone-au-dessus-de-chez-soi

        According to Article L. 6211-3 of the Transportation Code, airspace does not belong to the landowner. Therefore, a drone can fly over your property as long as it does not infringe on your property rights.

        The Penal Code, Article 322-1, specifies that destroying a drone is equivalent to damaging someone else’s property, punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.

        Germany

        https://www.gelbeseiten.de/ratgeber/rf/darf-man-drohnen-abschießen-hier-gibt-es-die-antwort

        If the drone flight reaches an intensity that the owner of a property considers a nuisance, this justifies a shooting. This is also how the Riesa District Court saw it, which on 24. April 2019 (file number: 9 Cs 926 Js 3044/19). The facts: A drone flew over a property and followed the movements of a woman and her daughter. The woman’s daughter felt threatened by the drone. This flew around at a height of 5 to 15 meters above the two women. The woman’s husband first called out to the drone to leave. He also signaled this by clear hand signals. Since the pilot did not steer the drone away from the property, the defendant shot at the drone with an air rifle. After the drone was shot down, it fell from the sky and was completely destroyed. There was a damage of 1,500 euros. The owner of the drone filed a criminal complaint for property damage in accordance with § 303c of the Criminal Code.However: According to § 228 BGB, the man was allowed to shoot the drone. He acted in a state of emergency and averted imminent damage from his family. There was a threat of further images.

        • daddy32@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Thanks for the research!

          The UK one seems like a good general argument against hunting ;)

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          7 months ago

          Like with all emerging technologies let’s wait for jurisprudence on those… though in europe we generally frown upon anything firearms I guess there will be some interesting evolutions with drones.

          As platforms they open too many possibilities and a rather constraining framework is already preventing their operation unless you have a license… which could become more of an access barrier if abuses become more prevalent.

          Anecdotally I have seen first hand in 2 occasions unlicensed operators getting caught and largely fined; which was in the end more expensive that having the little drone shot.

          Anyway having references that broadly seem to offer protection to drone operators isn’t necessarily a good news even where gun maniacs aren’t plentiful.

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      7 months ago

      They do occasionally enforce the signal jamming laws. Do it with any regularity in a way that messes up police radio, and they will work to catch you.

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    7 months ago

    What about under water drones where the payload floats to your hull instead if dropping from the sky?

    Gotta get serious about yacht safety if you wanna do all those wonderful pornhub things in international waters.

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    7 months ago

    Is this a “drones are coming to harm us” thing or a “paparazzi drones are taking pictures/videos where we thought we were out of sight” thing?

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      7 months ago

      It’s partly “in case we’re deciding to be idiots and go to active war zones” stuff, but I see those rich fucks using military level weapons against civilian drones because they can afford to act above the law.

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      7 months ago

      That was really interesting.

      I’ve got to admit that I felt that elation/rush that they felt when finishing off that guy on the field.

      Horrible that the Russian is probably just a normal guy, but they are the invading force attacking a sovereign nation.

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    7 months ago

    I’m not surprised. Ukraine has taught us that drones can be a cheap and shockingly effective attack vector for ships.

    If you find out that for $200 or often less you can remotely deploy a drone that sinks a ship, you’re obviously going to look into defensive measures.

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      7 months ago

      The drones attacking ships in Ukraine are boats loaded with explosives, and they cost much more than $200