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The U.S. Department of Transportation is set to announce plans to require registration for every drone sold:
Have a drone? You're going to have to register it with the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to NBC News.
The federal government will announce a plan within days that will require anyone who buys a drone to register it with the Department of Transportation, NBC reported Friday evening.
A Department of Transportation spokesperson told MarketWatch that U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Administrator Michael Huerta of the Federal Aviation Administration will release more details on Monday at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.
"The hobbyist drone community has self-regulated itself for decades," said Lisa Ellman, co-chair of the unmanned aircraft systems practice at Hogan Lovells, a New York–based law firm. "But with the technology getting so cheap and improving so much, we have more and more drones."
FAA official Rich Swayze said last month that the agency expects that a million drones could be sold this holiday season.
"A lot of people are buying them and thinking they are toys," Ellman said. "They are not toys."
Florida lawyer Jonathan Rupprecht, author of a book on drone law, said he believes any plan centered around drone registration is a necessary first step toward regulating drones but is curious how the regulation will play out and whether the rule will apply to hobbyists with small drones.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:47PM
You can spy on people too.
I don't even think that is an issue the FAA is trying to address.
Its more about the over blown fear of mid-air collisions or engine ingestion of a drone by an airliner, or other plane.
Never mind that commercial airliners can ingest a whole flock of sparrows or a couple geese and spit feathers out the back without a hiccup. It takes a large flock of large birds (Canadian geese in Sully's case) to take down an Airbus 320.
Landings have had to be aborted, fire retardant air-drops have been aborted due to small drones in the area. Probably over reaction in most cases.
Cops have arrested people (with no legal right to do so) for using "drones" to video their operations from a block away.
(I've heard police (on my scanner) ask the FAA for air space closures of 10 mile radius to 10000 feet due to an operation to arrest someone barricaded in their home. The FAA granted them 1 mile, and 3000 feet, thereby assuring news choppers with long lenses could capture the event. I guess they aren't total idiots after all).
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