A Kentucky man who shot an $1,800 drone that was hovering over his house and his subsequent arrest for “first degree criminal mischief and wanton endangerment” has sparked a privacy law debate, Fortune reports. “You know, when you’re in your own property … you have the expectation of privacy,” said William Meredith. “We don’t know if he was looking at the girls. We don’t know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing.” While critics of the shooting contend “the law frowns on self-help when a person can just call the police instead,” Prof. Michael Froomkin argues “it’s reasonable to assume robotic intrusions are not harmless and that people may have a right to ‘employ violent self-help.’”
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