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I would be interested to know how on-demand the No Fly zones can be updated -- interesting tool to, say, ensure there aren't any amateur camera-copters floating around accident scenes, public demonstrations an the like.


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This also raises the question of who's making these decisions and why. It makes you think if these decisions could be open to influence somehow.

Say a rich tenet in a NYC penthouse doesn't want any drones flying around his building. How do you enact a geofence around his building and then enforce that?


Get the drone's ID (assuming there's such a thing) and report it to the police.

Apparently this is in the works:

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/lightcense-drone-identifi...

Instead of the standard alphanumerical plates that are affixed to cars, drones would be equipped with a set of bright, multicolored LED lights. The lights would flash in a unique sequence that would correlate to the owner. A smartphone app would identify the pattern and search the database for the operator the vehicle is registered to.

pretty ingenious if you ask me.


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