
Sweden’s highest court bans drones with cameras - mooseburger
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/camera-spy-drones-banned-sweden-highest-court/
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cordite
This would surely kill low cost autonomous drones, right?

Assuming other non identifying technologies were used, I suspect that having
multiple drones with the same technology may fail by increasing the noise with
various light, sound, and radio wave methods.

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EJTH
Rediculus. This paranoia has to end. I don't know wether people in general
have a fear of being stalked by a racing FPV with a shoddy CMOS camera at the
beach, or if they fear some lunatic strapping a handgrenade to one.

FPV is pretty much what makes drones fun to use, I don't see why you would
outright ban "drones" instead of just making regulations as to where you can
fly with a camera.

EU will practically ban drones too in the near dystopian future.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyiO6shKGI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyiO6shKGI)

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gnicholas
I wonder how would this ruling apply to:

(1) drones with cameras that can be used for both navigation and for capturing
video, but which the operator only uses for navigation

(2) drones with cameras that can only be used for navigation and are viewable
by the operator in real-time

(3) drones with cameras that are used primarily for autonomous stabilization
(Parrot Mini Cargo has one) but can also be used to capture photos

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kwhitefoot
So long as no one is allowed to have them that's fine. No one at all, not the
police, not the kommune, not the secret service, not the army, absolutely no
one.

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wcummings
If it doesn't have a camera, is it really even a drone? Should just say
they've banned drones.

Good fucking riddance imo.

