Do I let new neighbour know they’ve made the village page?!

Surprised so many posters would have no issues whatsoever with a noisy flying camera flying over their homes and gardens. The cameras are really good on them and anybody could be flying it to download footage of children playing, sunbathers etc. Plus they sound like a loud bee in your ear. No thanks.

The drone flyer isn't the OP's friend. She is nothing to do with the drone flyer - apart from needing to give them manuals she accidentally took. So whether the drone flyer trusts OP is irrelevant to anything.

I wouldn't get involved. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can deduce that a drone flying over people's property/garden is going to piss some people off.

It’s not a friend. So this issue on ongoing trust is totally irrelevant. It’s a former tenant of a rental property who took appliance manuals in error, they have zero personal connection to the weirdos / dickheads with the drones.

Is a pretty grey area isn’t it.

where laws/rules haven’t kept up with technology.

The posters telling you to “keep out of it” are two faced! I’d be furious and hurt if I discovered a friend knew and didn’t bother to tell me. I’d never trust them again!

You need to read up on GDPR rules.

I think the basics is that organisations have to abide by GDPR, but individuals do not. The rules governing a surveyor using a drone will be very different to an individual using one.

If I (an individual) video a security guard at an industrial unit gate he has no right to the footage as I am not subject to GDPR, but if he gets his phone out and photographs me then he - as an employee of a company - is subject to GDPR rules and I am entitled to the photos if I ask within 30 days and he (or the organisation, not sure which) have committed an offence if they deleted them or do not supply them.

Others may be able to say much more.

I think (may be wrong) that you can film whatever your drone sees as it flies about, but that you can't simply hover over private gardens filming the goings on (especially if nudity, or kids) because that is clearly likely to annoy, upset or worse.

My knowledge is based on watching youtubers with drones, and they DON'T video private homes. If you go somewhere to film a castle, and also happen fly over a nearby house with your camera going, no problem. If you go to 8 Acacia Avenue to see if Mrs Jones is topless sunbathing and to monitor her kids - NO.

I think.

Well I’d certainly be up for signing any petition that ever pops up that makes a law per drones with cameras related less of size.

You shouldn’t be able to record people in their private gardens. Just minding their own business for your own jollies.

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but you seem to know more about this than me. Is this page correct that you need to inform people that their dater is being captured? And if this is true, what counts as their dater? Is my back garden enough or do I need to be stood in it?

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They moved in over the weekend
got the drone up to get familiar with the new local area
and I reckon that’s last it’ll be up for some time
just awful to immediately jump on whinging about them after what can only have been their first or second flight

I agree that irrespctive of the legalities, decent people don't tend to fly over there neighbours gardens with drones all the time.

I can see someone using a new one in their garden to test it, and going over neighbours. But other than doing this briefly once or twice decent people won't do it again. IMO

On the other hand if you happen to live next to a beautiful old church, in theory you could find different drone operators flying over your garden day in day out as they get from the best vantage point for take off to the church itself to film the beautiful old building.

Me too.

New tenants over the weekend
so a couple of days ago
and the presumably have had the chance to fly it a couple of times at most. Probably my just getting familiar with local area they’ve just moved to.

and already on the village Facebook page

bloody hell. Shudder at the thought of living somewhere like this. The person OP must have seen the drone, fired up the computer and banged out a post!

You need to take it up with the government who allow sub 250g drones to fly over your garden. Anything viewable from public space is "fair game" to film, and the airspace is effectively public space.

That said, I would imagine the moment a drone operator hovered low for a while, or who was taking close up shots of private gardens, or who was loitering having spooted a nude sunbather would fall foul of the law. The right to fly and film is not a perverts charter or a harassers charter.

In contrast if someone flew over a row of 6 gardens at 50 m, as part of a wider flight, and it just so happened you were sunbathing naked then I think the police would (or rather should) say "too bad" when you complain.

As a basic rule, if you don't want to have your face in other people's photos then you need to stay in private places which cannot be seen from public land or the sky, or you need to cover your face. I don't make the rules!

I’d definitely post it on the village fb page that it’s the new tenants of no27 or whatever.
We all know what drone types are like. I wouldnt want them in MY village that’s for sure.

I would agree they likely know many people would have a dim view about this and have chosen to fly it anyway. Unless they have a child who might be doing this when they don't know ,I would keep out of it.

What’s making you “fed up” @Fedup2910 ?

I mean you don’t expect privacy walking down a public path and I’d expect are respectfully dressed or happily a nudest.

In my private garden I expect privacy not a drone perving on me or my children who again should be able to expect privacy from predators in their own home and garden.

This really, It shows a spectacular lack of self awareness and concern for what other people may be thinking.

Most of the time it's probably just kids who are clueless about the concern they may be causing. But every now and then it may be something more unpleasant.

Anyone with an ounce of self awareness or empathy wouldn't want their neighbours thinking they were flying drones over their properties taking photos. IMO anyway.

Suppose that’s different as ones for entertainment purposes and the other is more for security

To be honest, if I were flying a drone in a small village, I would assume I was pissing people off!

How do you know they are not breaking the law? There are restrictions on where drones can be flown in relation to buildings and people.

I'll echo others. It is assumed that the drone takes video or pictures, so it is not hard to imagine that people are not happy someone filming their private spaces.

They must be weirdos flying a drone over peoples private property and th public park... I would steer well clear.

I think a started toilet roll is the weapon of choice against a drone. It fucks 'em up and drops them if the aim is good so I heard from a friend.