The following is a guest post by Andrew Elefant, Director of Policy at Kittyhawk.io, an enterprise drone software company in San Francisco, CA. More Clarity on ULC’s Tort Law Relating to Dro... Read more
What Venezuela’s Purported Assassination Attempt by Drones Means to an Industry Already Under Attack
News and Commentary. The drone news this week has been dominated by headlines about the purported assassination attempt on Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. The timing couldn’t be... Read more
News and Commentary. It’s time for drone operators in the U.S.- both commercial and recreational – to start paying attention as regulation heats up. On July 31, the Small UAV... Read more
New drone laws have come into effect in the UK today, restricting drones from flying above 400 feet or within one kilometer of airport boundaries. More laws are due to come into place later... Read more
Kittyhawk.io: The Uniform Law Commission is Uniting the Drone Industry Against Its Proposed Tort Law
The following is a guest post attorney and drone pilot Andrew Elefant, Director of Policy at Kittyhawk.io, an enterprise drone software company in San Francisco, CA. In anticipation of the U... Read more
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been doing battle with the FAA over drone privacy since 2012, but suffered a loss this week. The D.C. Circuit (the United States Court... Read more
News and Commentary. In a widely publicized FAA-funded report titled Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and... Read more
News and Commentary. Recent publicity over drone “incidents” – and the related threats of more regulations – have led some commercial operators to call for better en... Read more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report suggesting that the FAA needs to improve its management of safety risks for drones. The 92-page document, published in respon... Read more
Over at AirVuz, it’s not just about the pretty pictures. AirVuz News covers some of the industry’s hot topics, like this week’s video of the week about the Casey Neistat C... Read more
Seattle’s Space Needle seems to attract drones, and it seems that officials have decided enough is enough. Seattle lawmakers pushed for drone regulations back in 2014 when a drone vid... Read more
Virginia’s Governor Ralph Shearer Northam signed legislative bill HB638 last week. The bill is a major win for Virginia’s drone industry, making a move to prevent localities fro... Read more
The Drone Integration Pilot Program (IPP) announced by the Trump administration last year has generated tremendous interest in the U.S. Both state and local governments and drone industry p... Read more
News and Commentary. The U.S. House of Representatives announced at the end of last month that they had passed the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act by an overwhelming majority: 393 to 13. This... Read more
