The family in Seymour. Indiana, is worried that someone was trying to spy on their daughter in her bedroom.
The daughter said she heard a crash outside her bedroom window on the home's second floor around 11 p.m. on March 1. The next morning the family found a drone with a camera on their porch roof.
They don't know where the drone came from and turned it over to the Seymour Police, WTHR reported.
Seymour Police said that drones can freely fly in most places, but pilots should ask for permission before entering private property.
“Now, of course, common courtesy should come into play at some point. If you're going to fly it over other people's property, you probably need to get permission. There's not a law for that just yet because this is all kind of new technology," Jeremy Helmsing, Seymour Police public information officer, told WTHR.
Because the drone had a camera on it, using it to film people without their permission can be considered voyeurism.
"Any place that somebody believes they should have a reasonable amount of privacy, if you're prying into that, that could fall into voyeurism,” said Helmsing.
Authorities haven't opened a criminal investigation yet. They said they want to talk to the drone's owner before returning it.
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