How would mandatory drone registrations affect Americans?

Commercial drones have been a major problem for federal regulators for a while now, especially since they can’t seem to find an acceptable, yet effective way to go about regulating them. However, the Department of Transportation has started the process of writing up some commercial drones rules that would require the owners of such drones to register them with the federal government, something that has drawn a lot of criticism from the public, who’re worried about the potential consequences of such rules.