FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available (forbes.com)

Lauren Weinstein sends word about this admission by the FAA that has led many to have concerns about privacy. Forbes reports: "The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants’ names and home addresses will be public. In an email message, the FAA stated: 'Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address. When the drone registry system is modified to permit public searches of registration numbers, names and addresses will be revealed through those searches.'"

Comments

Er... What's wrong with this exactly?

[Etcetera]

I don't know... Maybe I'm coming at this from a different perspective, but as a HAM radio operator, my base station address (and home address) is public information, and is easily searchable by call sign. If you want to use a public resource, whether airwaves or airspace, you need to be traceable. That's, in fact, the entire point.

Put another way, the privacy implications of having untraceable drones outweigh the privacy implications of being able to track down who's controlling them.

Re:249 grams

[PopeRatzo]

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