The Hollywood Reporter notes that drones are being used for spying on and stealing from celebrities:
Emilia Clarke was sitting on the sofa in her Venice, California, home when she heard an insectile buzzing. She glanced up and there it was: a drone, hovering outside her living room’s tall windows, its camera trained on the Mother of Dragons as she gave an interview.
“There’s a drone looking in my house!” a stunned Clarke exclaimed. “That’s really creepy.”
Once spotted, the drone shot off. About 20 minutes later, however, the whirring device crept back to gawk some more at her personal space. Clarke was exasperated and more than a little unnerved.
This happened in 2019 — four years after a California law passed banning drone operators from violating the airspace of private property.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, for example, called the L.A. Police Department multiple times to report drone peepers in 2020. And drones continue to plague on-location film sets; Ryan Reynolds says he and the rest of the Deadpool & Wolverine cast had a “run for cover” plan in place if anybody spotted a drone while staging a spoiler-filled scene. And while a recent viral drone video showing Drake in a high-rise suite furiously shooing off a spy-copter was faked, it reinforced the prevalence of these buzzing breaches of privacy.
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The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in November that drones were being used in a string of burglaries in Stevenson Ranch. Around the same time, the Associated Press obtained a memo sent by the NBA to team officials warning that “transnational South American theft groups” were using drones and other tech to target wealthy players. Also last year, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that drones were believed to have been used in burglaries of beachside homes.
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The one thing you can’t do is shoot the thing down or otherwise disable it, even if it’s hovering over your property. Drones are classified as aircraft, and taking one down violates the Aircraft Sabotage Act. “Which is not something you want to be charged with,” Fraietta notes. “If you want to secure your space from unwanted drones, think smart security, not shotgun.”