A Call To Reduce Privacy-By-Design Into Practice To Tackle Privacy Risks By Drones And IOT

Is it high time for technology-driven regulation?

Unmanned areal vehicles (UAVs) become a commodity with an exponential increase in their use for commerce, agriculture, industry, law enforcement and recreation. As the number of UAVs grow rapidly, safety, security and privacy risks come along, and traditional enforcement efforts fall short.

The need to reduce the vague privacy-by-design principle into action, by setting appropriate mandatory technological requirements is ever so needed.

Mandatory sensors who would keep UAVs away from aircrafts, mandatory signaling of location, cameras with location-based limitations, are just examples of technology in the service of regulation.