TY - JOUR
T1 - Safety and privacy regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles
T2 - A multiple comparative analysis
AU - Lee, Dasom
AU - Hess, David J.
AU - Heldeweg, Michiel A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation , OISE-1743772 , Partnerships for International Science and Engineering (PIRE) Program: “Science of Design for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems.” Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation .
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PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - With the growth of commercial and recreational use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones), there is increasing attention to the need for regulation. A systematic review is conducted using a multiple comparative perspective: across three political jurisdictions (the United States, the European Union, and Japan) and across two areas of societal implication and policy (i.e., privacy and safety), with additional comparisons drawn from regulations for related cyber-physical systems. The multiple comparative analysis conducted in this paper shows that safety is a much more salient concern than privacy. Moreover, safety is focused on technical features of the UAVs, registration and certification, and differentiation by use case. Privacy regulations tend to follow broader digital privacy guidelines. Although there are some privacy rules that are UAV-specific, many of them do not yet directly address privacy challenges that are specific for UAVs. Additional comparisons with safety and privacy policies for automated vehicles and the smart grid reveal areas of potential development for harmonization and policy guidance. The study concludes with ten recommendations for future policy development.
AB - With the growth of commercial and recreational use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones), there is increasing attention to the need for regulation. A systematic review is conducted using a multiple comparative perspective: across three political jurisdictions (the United States, the European Union, and Japan) and across two areas of societal implication and policy (i.e., privacy and safety), with additional comparisons drawn from regulations for related cyber-physical systems. The multiple comparative analysis conducted in this paper shows that safety is a much more salient concern than privacy. Moreover, safety is focused on technical features of the UAVs, registration and certification, and differentiation by use case. Privacy regulations tend to follow broader digital privacy guidelines. Although there are some privacy rules that are UAV-specific, many of them do not yet directly address privacy challenges that are specific for UAVs. Additional comparisons with safety and privacy policies for automated vehicles and the smart grid reveal areas of potential development for harmonization and policy guidance. The study concludes with ten recommendations for future policy development.
KW - Comparative analysis
KW - Privacy
KW - Regulations
KW - Safety
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102079
DO - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142494344
SN - 0160-791X
VL - 71
JO - Technology in society
JF - Technology in society
M1 - 102079
ER -