Drone registration announcement update ... "US to require registration of drones to help track operators"
http://abc11.com/technology/us-to-require-registration-of-drones-to-help-track-users/1040285/ Federal regulators are expected to announce Monday that the government will require registration of most drones to help track operators who flout safety rules, according to an industry official. The industry official said the Federal Aviation Administration is setting up working groups of government and industry officials and model aircraft hobbyists to work out details of the registration system. The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. - - -- So, there's no federal registration of motor vehicles. OR GUNS. But they want to register drones. And it's a useless exercise, because there's NO WAY TO ENFORCE SUCH REGISTRATIONS. Anyone can build a flyer from commodity parts and open source firmware -- that means no serial numbers or other built-in restrictions. Is the government going to ban self-compiled firmware? Good luck, guys. And there's no way to VERIFY the name/address of registrations unless the government is planning to require credit card and/or social security numbers or the like -- and bad players could evade those as well. So this is government security theater run amok, as usual. More info when the official announcement appears. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
