Study on the privacy protection mechanisms under conditions of technological development as illustrated by UAVs

Abstract

Считается, что роботы и робототехника – технологии будущего. Тем не менее, предсказать то, как именно изменится наша жизнь в ближайшем будущем под влиянием тех или иных технологий, достаточно сложно. На сегодняшний день развитие технологий и техники затрагивает все сферы, включая при этом как гражданскую, так и военную. Беспилотные летательные аппараты (БПЛА, БЛА), или дроны , являются примером такой технологии, которая сегодня широко применяется в обеих сферах. Развитие технологий гражданских БПЛА влечет за собой изменение представления о конструкции и устройстве вещей, которыми мы можем пользоваться в повседневной жизни: становясь всё более технически сложными, они поднимают новые вопросы, связанные с регулированием их использования.

Robotics and robots are considered to be technologies of the future. Nevertheless, it seems quite hard to predict how this neat technology would influence our lives. Nowadays robotics development touches upon both military and civil spheres. As an example we may refer to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, which are widely used for both civil and military purposes. On the one hand, the United States, Israel, India, Turkey, or China operate a large number of military drones. On the other hand, drone technologies do not only associate with theatre of war: for example, of the American companies, Amazon, and one of the DHL Company’s office in Germany have tried to test drone delivery. Some even assume that there might appear “unmanned” aircrafts in the nearest future; meanwhile the United States invest into development of unmanned submarines. Moreover, even popular mass media platfroms, such as The New York Times and The Huffington Post have dedicated a separate page of their official websites in order to elucidate news, connected with the use of the drones, both military and civil.The use of drones catalyzes debates on cases when the UAVs can or cannot be used, which comes from the fact that nowadays this technology is developing quite fast, and is already available to a big number of users worldwide. For example, The Consumer Technology Association expected circa 700,000 of items to be sold by the end of 2016. Consequently, nearly 1 millions of civilians worldwide have already endorsed this neat technology. Nevertheless, nowadays the use of drones is not only associated with technological development, it also challenges issues of law, ethics, domestic security. How can government ensure that civil drones will not violate individual privacy? How can legal framework be set in order to regulate the use of drones? Thus, the author proposes to examine if\how this kind of technology has been reflected in legal legislations and which policies are applied in the sphere of regulation of the use of drones. This research will be mostly focusing on how a state guarantees privacy security in the context of civil drones’ development.