(Source: Bloomberg.com) It was the blinking lights outside the 10th-story window of her San Jose, California, condo that startled Elsvette Buenaventura from her bed last year. When she drew back the curtain, a small drone hovered a few feet away. In the days that followed, it returned at least three more times. Such stories have prompted lawmakers in a half-dozen U.S. … [Read more...] about State Laws Taking Aim at Drone Users Who Snoop on Their Neighbors
New Jersey
Drone Industry Set to Grow in New Jersey
(Source: nj1015.com) While plenty of privacy concerns remain, the drone industry is expected to explode in the next few years, creating thousands of new jobs and generating billions of dollars in economic activity in New Jersey and across the nation. In South Jersey, drone testing is set to take flight on Nov. 17 at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May. The drone … [Read more...] about Drone Industry Set to Grow in New Jersey
This Week in Drones: Explosive Headlines for the Week of 10/3/14
This week was pretty busy, both here at Dronelife and around the UAS community. In the wake last week's announcement from the FAA that granted six aerial imaging companies permission to fly their drones on movie sets, there was a lot of discussion this week about the rate of UAS integration into the national airspace. At the same time, there were plenty of other drone … [Read more...] about This Week in Drones: Explosive Headlines for the Week of 10/3/14
Cops Suspect Alleged Thieves Monitored Them With a Drone
(Source: arstechnica.com) Pennsylvania authorities suspect that two men accused of stealing mobile phones were monitoring law enforcement. Local media reported Tuesday that when they were arrested last month, one of the two suspects was carrying a camera-equipped drone that police saw flying over the Upper Saucon Township's police headquarters the day before the … [Read more...] about Cops Suspect Alleged Thieves Monitored Them With a Drone
Can You Shoot Down a Drone on Your Land?
(Source: gigaom.com) After a New Jersey man spotted his neighbor’s camera-equipped drone flying over his house this week, he fetched a shotgun and peppered the drone with holes, knocking it from the sky. Did he have a right to do so? Even though local police arrested the man on unlawful weapons charges, some people will feel he had the right to defend himself against an … [Read more...] about Can You Shoot Down a Drone on Your Land?
