NTIA Puts Out Voluntary Best Practices on UAS Use Privacy
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A Presidentially-driven process to create “best practices” related to drone use as it relates to “privacy, accountability, and transparency issues” has, after 15 months, come to a conclusion. A “consensus document” evolved from a memorandum in February 2015 from President Obama that tasked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, to look into Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and “the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties concerns these systems may raise.” Since that time the NTIA invited public comments on the matter, and then initiated a series of meetings, six in total, whereRead More
