Open AccessApplication of New Zealand Privacy Law to drones
Author(s) -
Andrew Shelley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v12i2.4585
Subject(s) - drone , operator (biology) , recreation , computer security , business , scale (ratio) , internet privacy , private information retrieval , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , law , geography , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , genetics , cartography , repressor , biology , transcription factor , gene
There has been rapid growth in the availability and use of small-scale drones1 in recent years, driven by the private benefits available to the drone operator. For a recreational operator the motivation may be enjoyment, but for the commercial operator there is the ability to gather information at lower cost and lower risk than previously possible, and potentially to gather information that could not previously be gathered in a cost-effective manner. Drones also give rise to a number of costs, most notably safety-related and privacyrelated, which by their nature are borne by third parties. A mechanism is required for the drone operator to internalise these costs if efficient use of drones is to be achieved.