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But with this surge in popularity comes increased risk to privacy as the technology makes it easy to spy on people in otherwise-private environments, such as an individual\u2019s home. An attacker can fly a drone over fences and walls to observe the inside of a house, without having physical access. Existing drone detection systems require specialist hardware and expensive deployment efforts, making them inaccessible to the general public.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>In this work, we present a drone detection system that requires minimal prior configuration and uses inexpensive commercial off-the-shelf hardware to detect drones that are carrying out privacy invasion attacks. We use a model of the attack structure to derive statistical metrics for movement and proximity that are then applied to received communications between a drone and its controller. We test our system in real-world experiments with two popular consumer drone models mounting privacy invasion attacks using a range of flight patterns. We are able both to detect the presence of a drone and to identify which phase of the privacy attack was in progress while being resistant to false positives from other mobile transmitters. 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