UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The United Nations' aviation agency is backing the creation of a single global drone registry, as part of broader efforts to come up with common rules for flying and tracking unmanned aircraft. While the International Civil Aviation Organization cannot impose regulations on countries, ICAO has proposed formation of the registry during a Montreal symposium this month to make data accessible in real time, said Stephen Creamer, director of ICAO's air navigation bureau. The single registry would eschew multiple databases in favor of a one-stop-shop that would allow law enforcement to remotely identify and track unmanned aircraft, along with their operator and owner. It's not yet clear who would operate such a database, although ICAO could possibly fill that role. The proposal, however, could face push back from users, after hobbyists successfully challenged the creation of a U.S. drone registry by the Federal Aviation Administration in court earlier this year.

Comments

while they're at it

[TimMD909]

Might as well register all guns, vehicles, and computers with a central, global agency. Add in PII, let Experian run it, and wait. Soon the world will be taught a myriad of lessons.

Just what we've always needed

[ColdWetDog]

Sure, the nice folks in France really need to know that I have a Phantom 3 here in Alaska. With that range of 2 km, I'm sure to be of interest to lots of global players. That's perfectly sensible and really justifies an enormous, poorly secured database that will probably be run over Lotus Notes.

Oh good, we will be made safe!

[TiggertheMad]

I sure hope they get all the alphabet soup agencies to register their black ops stealthy drones armed with laser guide munitions that are flying illegal off book kill missions over failed states.

Because, honestly those are the only ones worth worrying about. Who even gives a fuck about the retired guy who flys his 24" p-51 replica every Saturday at the local municipal soccer field? Amateur enthusiasts aren't really a problem. I'm not worried about actors like Amazon flying drones, they are going to be very safe about them because they don't want to get sued. Its just cops and military I worry about and they aren't going to register shit.