Wednesday’s House Aviation Subcommittee hearing on drones was dominated by members’ complaints about the Federal Aviation Administration’s lateness in issuing regulations that would allow the unmanned aerial vehicle industry to grow.
But one panel member, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., also had privacy on his mind.
While Massie is concerned that “the industry is being stifled” by the Obama administration’s slowness in issuing a UAV rule, he also worries that drones could violate Americans’ privacy.
Massie, one of the House’s outspoken libertarians, spoke in terms reminiscent of his fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who during his drone filibuster last year said he worried about drones snooping on a person “swimming in their pool in their backyard or in the hot tub.”
Massie said at Wednesday’s hearing, “In addition to a ceiling [on how high UAVs will be permitted to fly, so that they don’t hit commercial aircraft] one of the things I would like to see is a floor. What is a reasonable expectation on your property? If something is an inch above the ground, is it trespassing? If it’s ten feet above the ground, is it trespassing? You have the right to engage a trespasser.”
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