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DRONES INVADING YOUR PRIVACY?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
November 13, 2015
You remember in the past we all knew
the saying: “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!” Now –
with everybody being able to buy drones – it has even gotten
worse.
Remember the good old times when a
6-foot privacy fence kept you private from the view of your
neighbors. Don’t waste your money any more on such a fence – a
drone doesn’t care how high your fence is.
Your neighbor can easily take pictures
of you sunbathing in your backyard (maybe even without you
wearing any cloth) and post your pictures on any of the social
media networks.
What are you going to do about it?
The law says that video surveillance
cameras can’t be directed at your neighbor’s home. How about
these drones? There are very little restrictions regulating the
use of drones and everybody can buy drones with cameras built-in
for less than $100 at Amazon.
Or just imagine your association board
gets the fancy idea to spy on you or take a look for violations
in your backyard, normally hidden from view by your privacy
fence? How about getting a violation notice using pictures taken
by a drone as proof for your violation?
Here goes your privacy!
I honestly wonder that I haven’t seen
a media report yet telling the story of a homeowner who got sick
and tired of his privacy being violated by a drone and finally
took a shotgun and shot this nuisance down? I guess that will be
next?
That would possibly stop the invasion of privacy!
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
!
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