Drones are used worldwide to fight the coronavirus epidemic, such as quarantine or curfew control, street disinfection. Almost all countries in the world are beginning to use drones in policing and rescue.
One of the most important tasks of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) available today is data collection. The practice of this has raised many ethical and safety issues in recent years, so, among other things, legal regulations such as e.g. the GDPR, which, in addition to ensuring the protection of people’s personal data, makes the way they are handled transparent.
Hobby drones equipped with a camera are now a very popular tool around the world, while a group of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence-based framework that allows even more serious filmmakers to make shooting more efficient and cheaper.
In the United States, small drones are allowed to fly at night and even over humans, a major advance in the mass adoption of drone technology, such as parcel delivery.
It hasn’t been long since Hurricane Laura wreaked havoc in America – many have recorded the damage with drones, and scientists say it’s a very good and precise method that, combined with artificial intelligence, could benefit us.
France’s Supreme Administrative Court has backed data protection campaigners by banning the use of police drones to monitor public demonstrations in Paris.