coyneg
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I didn't write the law, and I don't advocate that it is either well-constructed, or well-intended.
Texas was one of the first states to create this kind of statute - it was known as the Texas Privacy Act as it made its way through the system before being adopted.
There were various big-money interests that lobbied it - including Oil & Gas, to prevent citizens from using UAV to monitor their activity, big agriculture, to prevent citizens from monitoring their activity, etc.
The burden of proving intent is an interesting one, and it does not prevent overflight of any public area not otherwise prohibited by the FAA. So far, only a handful of challenges have arisen, where UAV-acquired video and/or still photography was submitted to a news agency, or made publicly available under auspices of investigative journalism. |
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