"“Think of them as flying robots,” says Peter Asaro, assistant professor at the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York. They are detached, remotely controllable, lightweight — and they can hover. “They are now so cheap almost anyone can use them. For $300 on Amazon.com, you can get a quad-rotor with HD cameras, and you can control it from a smartphone or tablet. The barrier to aerial photography has fallen. You don’t have to rent a helicopter.”sa
Asaro says, “It’s going to be interesting to see how privacy and safety laws develop. The FAA ruling was a commercially oriented ruling that didn’t touch privacy at all.”"