The Australian Law Reform Commission has loosely looked at the privacy issues in the past - but the ACUO has now submitted a detailed proposal to the House of Representatives. The plan would, according to the industry body, 'protect individual human rights while still facilitating industry growth'. The ACUO says: 'The proposed approach would see Australia’s existing Privacy Act and other extant national laws undergo minor modification to recognise that imagery, the primary output of unmanned aircraft used for commercial purposes, needs to be accorded the same status as data.'

Increasing interest

Drone law is becoming of increasing interest to lawyers. A law firm in Richmond, Virginia in the US has just set up a specialist team. Source: sUAS News