Increased Drone Use Welcome but Raises Privacy, State/Local Regulatory Concerns

摘要

Proliferating drone use, fueled by the need to survey remote lands and wildlife populations for environmental and conservation purposes, is raising privacy and local/state regulatory issues, an attorney specializing in drone use said. The technology has clear benefits. Drones are used to assess environmental damage caused by pipeline leaks to air and water, to conduct caribou surveys on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to inspect wind turbines, said Christopher J. Carr, a partner with Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.