Guidance on the Use of Drones

Drones (common name for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)) are a broad category of aircraft of various sizes which are remotely piloted without humans on board, equipped with technology for collecting images, videos, sounds, and/or other information and transmitting them to smart devices. Similar to Body-Worn Cameras drones can effectively turn into a mobile surveillance system and are highly likely to capture the personal data of passers-by (data subjects).

These guidelines have been developed for drone operators for purposes other than public law-related purposes and also to answer queries from the perspective of data subjects by the Data Protection Commission.

You can find the full text of the Guidance here.

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