'Unlicensed' drones being used by pervs to spy on bikini babes on beaches Down Under

Unregistered and unlicensed drones available online for affordable prices are reportedly being deployed for private snooping by rogue operators in Queensland.

The drones costing as low as 800 dollars are used to monitor public or private property and the legitimate operators want authorities to take strong actions against such users.

However, since there are no privacy laws in Australia for such a breach, there is no way these drones could be taken down.

Queensland's acting Privacy Commissioner Lemm Ex, said that he expected more drones to be used in the state for legitimate crime detection, urban planning and search and rescue but added that he could not stop private rogue operators, The Courier Mail reports.

Aerial Pix's Eric de Saint Quentin said that the drones were being abused by unlicensed operators who buy it online adding that some are using them on women sunbathing at the beach.

Ex said that there is no privacy law in the country that will deal with one neighbour using a drone to survey another adding that there may be non-privacy laws which apply but it remains that the use of drones by individuals is not currently regulated by privacy law.

He further explained that one of the reasons why drones are getting popular for agencies is that it is now both eminently affordable and relatively sophisticated and geography is no boundary for the device.

A spokesman for Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) said that action could be taken against unlicensed drone operators but evidence was needed.