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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been doing battle with the FAA over drone privateness since 2012, however suffered a loss this week.   The D.C. Circuit (the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) rejected EPIC’s petition to evaluation FAA’s small drone rule, “finding …

By U.S. Government [Public domain] A latest report printed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding FAA actions offers perception into how U.S. drone rules evaluate to these in 10 different international locations. The international locations in comparison with the U.S. in the report have been Australia, Canada, France, Japan, …

The FAA is making massive efforts to speak with and educate industrial operators.  Part of the program, they kicked off a dwell summer season Webinar collection on Tuesday providing perception into FAA waiver and authorization processes, beginning with “Where’s My Waiver?” FAA put collectively a workforce of staffers to current …

Licensed CCO News and Commentary.  This may very well be the yr – or not.  The FAA has been working beneath a sequence of funding extensions for years now.  A multi-year package deal hasn’t been handed since 2012 – nicely earlier than the drone trade loved monetary affect predictions of …

The Senate Appropriations Committee authorized the fiscal 2019 Transportation-HUD spending invoice by a unanimous vote: however criticized the Department of Transportation for diverting Department funds to pay for the UAS Integration Pilot Program. The Senate invoice rejected most of the Trump Administration’s solutions, together with funding for many areas that …

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched a report suggesting that the FAA wants to enhance its administration of security dangers for drones. The 92-page doc, revealed in response to rising concern in Congress and different authorities companies over the unsafe use of drones, says that the FAA lacks good …

The FAA’s just lately introduced UAS Integration Pilot Program is empowering a wide range of smaller firms and start-ups to develop their drone companies. For instance, Fargo-based, drone-software agency Botlink is flying excessive after being granted a state-government partnership The IPP is described by the FAA as “an opportunity for state, …

A serious Canadian delivery-drone agency is teaming up with Toyota to create a UAV supply logistics platform. Drone Delivery Canada introduced the partnership May 28 with Toyota Tsusho Canada Inc. – a subsidiary of the well-known Toyota Group. The effort will see TTCI take part with DDC’s industrial pilot program …

By Wknight94 [GFDL  or CC BY-SA 3.0 ] Seattle’s Space Needle appears to draw drones, and it appears that evidently officers have determined sufficient is sufficient.  Seattle lawmakers pushed for drone rules again in 2014 when a drone video of the Space Needle went viral.  Since then, Seattle has had …

Back in March, automotive producer Ford introduced that its drone division had put ahead a suggestion to the FAA’s distant monitoring & ID aviation rulemaking committee. Our first impression was ‘Hold up, Ford has a drone division?’ After that, we had a have a look at the specifics of the …