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DJI discusses Drone-to-Phone tech and pilot privacy
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<blockquote data-quote="jimlips" data-source="post: 110369" data-attributes="member: 15968"><p>They are going to have to come up with something else. Imagine this scenario:</p><p></p><p>You are out flying your drone in a park, a remote mountain, or around a lake. </p><p>Paranoid person sees your drone incidentally pass over or fly near his back yard. Paranoid person uses the app on their phone to identify your drone and exactly where you, the Pilot In Command is standing, flying the drone.</p><p>He walks over to you, armed, and either: confronts you, argues with you, threatens you, or (worse case), shoots you. </p><p></p><p>This was all made possible by the new "law". </p><p></p><p>This very thing happened to me last weekend. I was flying up in a State park, where there was an old fire lookout. I was orbiting the lookout (non-manned), and a guy comes over to me with his dog. He asks what I am doing. I told him I was photographing the lookout. He claims I flew over his back yard (I never even saw his house in the woods), and that his neighbor has a drone, and "looks in his windows" all the time. He wanted to make sure his neighbor did not hire me. He claims his neighbor is "tightly wound". I think he is a little confused on who is "tightly wound". I was done flying, so I came in, landed, and left. I was friendly the whole time, and told him I was just photographing the old lookout. He didn't seem happy.</p><p></p><p>Sending my location data to the police is fine. But to anyone with an app on their phone, no way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jimlips, post: 110369, member: 15968"] They are going to have to come up with something else. Imagine this scenario: You are out flying your drone in a park, a remote mountain, or around a lake. Paranoid person sees your drone incidentally pass over or fly near his back yard. Paranoid person uses the app on their phone to identify your drone and exactly where you, the Pilot In Command is standing, flying the drone. He walks over to you, armed, and either: confronts you, argues with you, threatens you, or (worse case), shoots you. This was all made possible by the new "law". This very thing happened to me last weekend. I was flying up in a State park, where there was an old fire lookout. I was orbiting the lookout (non-manned), and a guy comes over to me with his dog. He asks what I am doing. I told him I was photographing the lookout. He claims I flew over his back yard (I never even saw his house in the woods), and that his neighbor has a drone, and "looks in his windows" all the time. He wanted to make sure his neighbor did not hire me. He claims his neighbor is "tightly wound". I think he is a little confused on who is "tightly wound". I was done flying, so I came in, landed, and left. I was friendly the whole time, and told him I was just photographing the old lookout. He didn't seem happy. Sending my location data to the police is fine. But to anyone with an app on their phone, no way. [/QUOTE]
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