Growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or drone) has
caused a surge in the creation of technologies and systems meant to
disable or destroy them. This article focuses on the legal and
regulatory implications of these emerging anti-UAV technologies.
The government will likely continue to pursue unsafe drone
operators, but the specifics as to how that will happen and who
will be responsible will vary due to the complex intersection of
the regulatory and legal frameworks.
The
Cipher Brief: Concerns about malicious use of UAVs have been
rising for some time. How has the fear of malicious drone use
changed the regulatory environment in regards to UAVs?
Tyler Black & Sean McGowan: Halting
inadvertant or malicious unmanned aerial vehicles operations,
especially around airports, aircraft, or sensitive facilities, has
become an important government focus during the general integration
of UAV into the national airspace system. While the Federal
Aviation
