The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), at the request of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG), issued new drone operating restrictions to address concerns about potentially malicious...more
11/1/2018
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
USCG
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced last week that it has discovered unauthorized users have attempted to hack into its online trademark system to attempt to make unauthorized changes to active trademark...more
10/29/2018
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Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Credit Security Freeze ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Employee Training ,
General Electric ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Legal Ethics ,
New Legislation ,
Risk Management ,
Small Business ,
Trademark Application ,
Trademark Registration ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
USPTO
Avitas Systems, a General Electric (GE) venture, received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to fly a large unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator in Loving...more
10/29/2018
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Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) ,
Commercial Use ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Drones ,
Energy Sector ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
General Electric ,
Part 107 ,
Public Safety ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Safety Standards ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Waivers
On October 12, 2018, Pennsylvania approved a new law that imposes criminal penalties on individuals who use drone to spy on others. The law takes effect in 60 days....more
Many consumers are unaware that retailers use facial recognition technology in retail stores to monitor shoppers and prevent shoplifting. Consumers see cameras in retail stores and assume they are there to monitor for...more
10/15/2018
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COPPA ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Driverless Cars ,
Drones ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
OIG ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Title III ,
Trump Administration ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
On October 5, 2018, President Trump signed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act which establishes new conditions for the recreational use of drones and immediately repealed the Special Rule for Model...more
Over 100 years ago manned aviation revolutionized transportation. However, it is less well-known that it also sparked a big change in property rights.
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On October 1, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its “Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook” to address continued threats to medical devices that could affect...more
10/8/2018
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ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Bitcoin ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Currency ,
Drones ,
Facebook ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hackers ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Medical Devices ,
OMB ,
Online Platforms ,
Part 107 ,
Popular ,
Public Safety ,
Robocalling ,
Social Media ,
Social Networks ,
Toyota ,
Trading Platforms ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Virtual Currency
Drone pilots who interfere with those fighting wildfires, conducting law enforcement tasks, or other first responders (such as medical flights) are now more likely to face serious civil penalties. Last week, the Federal...more
10/8/2018
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Aviation Industry ,
Drones ,
Emergency Response ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
New Guidance ,
Public Safety ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Technology Sector ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced new partners in its Low Altitude and Notification Capability (LAANC) initiative. ...more
10/8/2018
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Applications ,
Commercial Use ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Part 107 ,
Public Safety ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Safety Standards ,
Service Professionals ,
Technology Sector ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Waivers
For the first time in the U.S., a commercial drone equipped with a parachute safety system was permitted to fly over people during a football game in North Dakota last week....more
10/8/2018
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Commercial Use ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Football ,
Part 107 ,
Public Safety ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Safety Standards ,
Spectator Sports ,
Technology Sector ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Waivers
State Farm has been granted a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver to use drones, under the Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Rule (or Part 107), to assess damages in communities affected by Hurricane Florence....more
9/28/2018
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Commercial Use ,
Drones ,
Hurricane Florence ,
Inspections ,
Insurance Industry ,
Natural Disasters ,
Part 107 ,
Property Damage ,
Severe Weather ,
State Farm ,
Technology Sector ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Waivers
According to recent documents made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) IBM has applied for a patent for a system that would use distributed ledger technology to address privacy and security concerns...more
9/28/2018
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Blockchain ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Drones ,
IBM ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Security Controls ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
USPTO
It’s true. Utility and power companies really love using drones. While it seems like drones are everywhere now, with trillions of dollars’ worth of industrial infrastructure aging across the country, worker safety and...more
While inspecting a cracked window at San Francisco’s tilting Millennium Tower, a drone fell from the sky nearly missing pedestrians below....more
9/20/2018
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Commercial Use ,
Drones ,
Inspections ,
Public Safety ,
Real Estate Development ,
Risk Management ,
Safety Standards ,
San Francisco ,
Technology Sector ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
As of last week, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) is nationwide. We wrote about the FAA’s initiation of LAANC in April, with incremental deployment at...more
We all remember Kronos—the malicious malware that was sold by Russian underground forums in 2014 for $7,000. If you bought it, you were promised updates and development of new modules. The Kronos developers recently released...more
9/17/2018
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hurricane Season ,
Malware ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Scams ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, Dan Elwell, said last week, “Drones are going to do for aviation what the internet did for information,” and called on the industry to work with the FAA to fully integrate...more
Last week, on the two-year anniversary of the small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) rule (or Part 107), a report was released by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) stating that the Federal...more
It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal...more
9/4/2018
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Arbitration ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Blockchain ,
Commercial Use ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Do Not Call List ,
Drones ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Safety Standards ,
Southwest Airlines ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
At Grand Sky, a commercial unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone) focused research and development park in North Dakota, started flying large UAS beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)....more
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began investigating a YouTube video that displays a helicopter almost colliding with a drone right off the coast of Hollywood Beach....more
A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more
8/27/2018
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Banking Sector ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Cell Phones ,
Commercial Use ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hackers ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
State Departments of Transportation ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Last week, the Kansas Department of Transportation (DOT), in coordination with 30 other Kansas groups, flew a drone beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) as part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Unmanned Aerial...more
National security concerns related to drones range from illicit intelligence gathering to smuggling drugs and guns over the border or into prisons, to attacks like those conducted by terrorist groups. However, currently,...more
8/24/2018
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Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Drones ,
Legislative Agendas ,
National Security ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Safety ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Technology Sector ,
Terrorist Acts ,
Threat Management ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems