WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wing Alphabet Inc’s drone delivery unit criticized the Trump administration’s rules issued this week ordering the identification of broadcast-based drones, saying they should review to allow a study based on the internet.
On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued rules that allow small drones to fly over people and at night in the United States and identify remote identification technology for almost all drones.
The rules remove requirements for drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles, to be connected to the internet to broadcast location data but require them to broadcast remote ID messages through frequency coverage. radio.
“This approach creates barriers to compliance and will have unintended negative privacy implications for businesses and consumers,” Wing said Thursday in a blog post, adding that “a viewer who ‘monitoring a drone to obtain sensitive information about specific users, including where they visit, spend time, and stay and where customers receive packages from and when.’
Wing said: “American communities would not accept this kind of surveillance of deliveries or taxi rides on the road. They should not accept it in the sky. ”
Wing called on the FAA to expand ways in which operators can comply with ID requirements.
The FAA said on Thursday that it had received and addressed “more than 50,000 public comments on the proposed remote identification rule, which will bring drones safely into the national air system. ”
The Internationalsaid ID Remote Team Association will operate as a “digital license plate plate.”
Drone manufacturers will have 18 months to make drones with Remote ID, and operators will have an additional year to provide ID ID.
Wing argues that web-based tracking “allows a drone to be identified as it flies over without sharing the drone’s overall flight path or flight history.”
Chinese drummer SZ DJI Technology Co said this week that they have “long supported the FAA Remote ID campaign as it will enhance drone accountability, safety and security … We are re- review the final rule to understand how DJI can take steps toward compliance with upcoming FAA requirements. ”
Reciting with David Shepardson; Edited by David Gregorio