Drone usage and privacy infringement: Review

Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person, and for securing to the individual (the right to be let alone). Drones, also referred to as UAV’s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), are an aircraft without a human pilot. Drones deployed without proper regulation, drones equipped with facial recognition software, infrared technology, and speakers capable of monitoring personal conversations would cause unprecedented invasions of our privacy rights. Interconnected drones could enable mass tracking of vehicles and people in wide areas. Tiny drones could go completely unnoticed while peering into the window of a home or place of worship. The review paper is aimed at drone capabilities and how they could and are currently effecting privacy laws globally, and it will also focus on the laws preventing such invention.