Droneshave gained in tremendous popularity over the past few years. The official name for a drone is UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle, and is defined, as it's name implies, as an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. Drones are either piloted from the ground, with a remote, or from a p...
The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to make strides in drone regulation laws in the United States. It has recently become a law that drones in the United States must have visible ID numbers on the outside. This new rule goes into effect on February 25, 2019, and will have dro...
Since August 2016, consumer drone use has been regulated under a detailed set of FAA laws. This is a minor problem for drone fans: They want to play around with the latest drone tech, but they really don’t want to read a long list of regulation sections to find out what’s allowed....
Drones are growing up. A decade ago, flying a drone was just a fun hobby that drew curious stares; today, drones are everywhere, doing important and evenlife-saving workas well as providing a creative outlet for fun, photogenic flights. As drones became more common, governments around the w...
Amazon’s plan to introduce delivery by drone in its experimental Prime Air program hasalready been hamstrungby FAA regulations. Current rules make the commercial use of drones in the US—including test flights—illegal, and a planned overhaul of the law set to arrive in early 2015 could beeve...
FAA bans drones over New Jersey towns, New York infrastructure sites The mysterious drones seen flying over New Jersey and several other East Coast states have prompted a ban from the FAA. Dec 19 Who monitors drones in the U.S.? The laws surrounding drones in the U.S. may create confusio...
The FAA also got SkyPan to help them "release three public service announcements in the next 12 months" that will "encourage drone operators to learn and comply with" drone laws. Though $200,000 isn't a small sum, it's not anywhere close to the $1.9 million first sought by the FAA....
The test drone sites will have to comply with federal and state privacy laws, account for collected data and present annual reviews on privacy practices, Huerta said. “It's crucial that as we move forward with drone use, those procedural protections are followed by concrete restrictions on how...
He said the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution already addresses any privacy implications from government use of drones, while ample trespass laws exist to protect individuals from privately-operated drones. The issue is one of several expected to be strongly debated between now and 2017, when ...
"[Drones] must operate in accordance with federal, state and other laws" on privacy The test sites program is designed to do just that, and the current draft privacy policy is supposed to be part of the FAA's legally binding contract with selected test site operators. But as it stands...