Legislation Introduced to Limit Drone Surveillance and Facial Recognition
Legislation has been introduced to protect individual privacy from the growing number of government and commercial drones in use.
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act to ensure standards for informing the public about the location, timing and ownership of unmanned aerial vehicles. The legislation also will require privacy protection provisions relating to data collection and minimization, disclosure, warrant requirements for law enforcement, and enforcement measures in the licensing and operation of drones. The FAA estimates that as many as 2,700,000 commercial unmanned aircraft systems will be sold each year in the United States by 2020. The lawmakers introduced similar legislation in the last Congress.