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It's not about what is or isn't a public thoroughfare. It's about what is or isn't "a reasonable expectation of privacy." It just turns out that, because people
by snarg 2y ago
It's not about what is or isn't a public thoroughfare. It's about what is or isn't "a reasonable expectation of privacy." It just turns out that, because people are expected to walk/drive on streets, and people are also generally expected to have functional eyes, your front yard doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
- shadowgovt 2y agoIt's both. The problem is that the cost to just be passing by in the air has come way down, and that creates a new question of privacy that wasn't practical to worry about before. (If it weren't being addressed by the cops specifically right now vis-a-vis warrentless searching, it'd have to be addressed by society eventually as we get into questions like "Who's eyes are on the camera feeds from all those Amazon delivery drones?").