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FAA UAS Remote ID Rule and the Insurance Industry Data Use Case

As more and more unmanned aerial systems (UAS or drones) hit the skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued the UAS Remote Identification (RID) Rule to increase airspace safety and security. The time has come for...more

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Drone Data Marketplace Assists in Assessing Flood Risk and Better Disaster Response

Globhe Drones, based in Sweden, provides a subscription model platform for businesses to access data from about 8,000 drone operators in 134 countries. Globhe’s drone data marketplace gathers aerial imagery and generates...more

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Drones Are Changing Forestry – Here’s How

A Philadelphia-based company, Treeswift, has created a drone called SwiftCruise, that can maneuver below the forest canopy and gather plentiful data from heavily-forested areas. The drone uses a combination of cameras,...more

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Another Attempt at Blocking Chinese-Made Drones in the U.S.

This week, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Tom Cotton (as well as Congress member Elise Stefanik, who introduced parallel legislation) introduced the Countering CCP Drones Act in an effort to add DJI, a Chinese...more

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USPS Issues Request for Information from the Unmanned Aircraft Industry

The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) from industry experts on unmanned aircraft systems used for letter or parcel delivery. USPS says that it is merely investigating the...more

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GAO Says FAA Could Leverage Drone Test Site Data for More Effective Integration

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote in a report published last week that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has facilitated approximately 15,000 drone research flights since 2015, but that the FAA...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019

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Consistent with our experience, security firm McAfee has confirmed in a report that ransomware attacks have doubled in 2019. Medical providers have been hit hard this year, and one provider, Wood Ranch Medical, located in...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2019 #3

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Many cities in the United States utilize a self-pay portal for residents to pay bills online, known as Click2Gov. Click2Gov was compromised in 2017 and 2018, when hackers were able to access over 300,000 payment cards and...more

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Drone Completes 115-Mile Trial for Offshore Methane Detection

Recently, British Petroleum’s (BP) North Sea business completed its pilot project to remotely monitor methane emissions of its offshore assets by using an unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone). BP used a fixed-wing UAS with...more

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North Dakota Sheriff’s Department to Operate Drones Over People

Last week, the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department in North Dakota received a four-year waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate drones over people....more

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DJI to Manufacture Some Drones in the U.S. to Cure Security Concerns

DJI, a supplier of approximately 70 percent of all drones in the United States, announced this week that it will begin manufacturing some of its products in the U.S. DJI plans to repurpose a warehouse in Cerritos, California...more

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Emerging Technologies Washington Update March 2019 #2

This Week: Senators unveil bipartisan bill aimed at improving privacy protection for children, Senate Judiciary Committee wades into federal privacy debate, House Subcommittee examines drones, urban air mobility, and the...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #2

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Many consumers are unaware that retailers use facial recognition technology in retail stores to monitor shoppers and prevent shoplifting. Consumers see cameras in retail stores and assume they are there to monitor for...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #5

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It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #4

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A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more

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New Class Action Against FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was served with an 836,796-person lawsuit last week alleging wrongful collection of personal data and money under unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone) regulations....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2017

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), one of the watchdogs of the financial services industry, has announced through Acting Director Mick Mulvaney that it will no longer collect personal information of consumers...more

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Amazon’s Scanning Technology for Package Delivery

If you haven’t yet heard about it, Amazon is on the forefront of package delivery. And if you think that is old news (which it is!), have you heard about Amazon’s scanning technology capable of scanning the homes down below...more

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Consortiq Software System Demonstrates Security For UAS Is Possible

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS or drone) security has become a hot topic not only in the United States, but throughout countries around the world as more UAS hit the skies, increasing the potential for hackers to intercept data...more

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The Commercial Drone Technology Evolution

The commercial drone technology ecosystem has come a LONG way in the last five years, and businesses all over the world have spent years exploring the potential of drones. Over this time, there have been at least eight...more

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The Drone Privacy and Transparency Act of 2017: Overdue or Over-reaching?

On March 15, 2017, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced federal legislation entitled the Drone Privacy and Transparency Act of 2017. The proposed legislation seeks to address...more

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Is there a Way to Monetize Commercial Drone Data?

By the end of the year, it is estimated that there will be about 600,000 commercial drones operating in the United States. U.S. Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx says, “We are in one of the most dramatic periods of...more

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Electronic Privacy Information Center Challenges FAA’s New Drone Rules Over Lack Of Privacy Safeguards

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On Monday, August 22, the non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) brought suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), challenging the lack of...more

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Drones and Privacy Just Got More Complicated (Table Included)

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As businesses seek to integrate into their workflows data collected from Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, they are confronted with a very sensitive and complex issue: privacy. Currently, there...more

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Drones increasingly used by State Departments of Transportation across the country

Across the United States, state Departments of Transportation (DOT) are using or testing drones to conduct bridge inspections, accident assessments, surveys and to conduct risk mitigation. A recent report by the American...more

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