On Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a project, the so-called roadmap. The main aim of it is to integrate drones into civilian airspace by 2015. However, the roadmap has caused strong reactions among privacy advocates.
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In
response to that, Michael Huerta, the FAA Administrator corrected that
his organization is working hard in establishing aviation safety not on
imposing new privacy regulations. The new document consists of 74 pages
and is devoted to establishing new technologies that will allow drones
to operate among the other civilian aircrafts in the air. Each drone
will come with its own privacy policy that will be open to general
public.
Opponents
of the program have instantly announced their doubts regarding the
“privacy regulations”, mentioning that several precedents on that matter
could be found and that the Unmanned Aerial Systems could come up with a
$10 billion industry.
However,
such precedents indeed happened in the era of the birth of aviation.
Back then landowners owned the air above their heads, hypothetically all
the way up into space. And the owners were not happy that the craft
that was passing through “their” territory. Not mentioning the questions
of air pollution, noise etc. In the end, the story was transformed into
a law, if to be more concrete, into the organization, the Federal
Aviation Administration.
The
similar situation will have to happen with civilian drones as well. It
might take certain time and a lot of debates but no matter what the
activists say, with certain tests it will be implemented into the
current air reality.
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