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I think the geofencing has the same value as a door lock; it keeps the honest people honest.

So we'll only really have to worry about dishonest terrorists and or plastic bags

Right, as opposed to also worrying about a careless teenager flying their drone too close to an airport to get a sick camera angle of a landing plane.

Why worry about something that hasn't happened? Why not worry about a careless teenager wanting to get a sick Camera angle of the inside of your fridge? It's as valid a concern.

But people flying drones over airports has happened: https://youtu.be/QGMDQ-vaV9Y

Normally I would agree with you, I often chide people for inventing problems to solve. But it is a little different when it isn't a hypothetical as much as an inevitable future occurrence.

As for refrigerators, I am just as worried about people trying to fly drones around my house as I am about people flying drones around planes, yes. I have it on good authority that anyone with the funds can purchase access to 3D drone-generated map of my city, my house included. A gentleman here in town who replaces windows doesn't bother to measure them anymore; he just uses the drone photos.

https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/

Now imagine that without Google Privacy, better cameras, and shot from the air.

That's a public website, no Google privacy is relevant.

Google Privacy is the program which blurs (things that looks like) faces and license plates.

We will always have to worry about intelligent, motivated people who wish to do us harm. Isn't that enough to worry about without being vulnerable to careless people, behaving unintelligently, who put lives at risk through their ignorance? Keep in mind, the latter group is much bigger.

Or a linter. It helps to stop you inadvertently doing something stupid.

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