A Seattle residence, Linda Pleiss, called police when she noticed a drone with a camera attached to it, hovering outside her 26^th floor window. The drone operator later apologized stating a real estate developer hired him to use the drone to survey property in the area. Linda felt her right to privacy had been violated.

The article raises the question of privacy and what privacies the 1^st Amendment guarantees? In American Democracy, Chapter 4 (pp.…