On March 31, 2015, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a petition against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with the D.C. Circuit court asking that the court review the FAA’s proposed rule on commercial drone use, which was released in February of this year, for its failure to include appropriate privacy safeguards. While the
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Privacy rights group speaks out against FAA’s proposed framework on commercial use of drones
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
On March 31, 2015, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a petition against the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposed rule on commercial drone use, in the D.C. Circuit. EPIC believes that the FAA did not create privacy safeguards in its proposed rule as mandated by Congress. EPIC explains in its petition that Congress…