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A Legal Study on infringement of privacy of unmanned aircraft

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2014, (65), pp.267-299
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Kim Sun-Ihee 1

1한국항공대학교

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ABSTRACT

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone and referred to as a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. In developed countries, it has invested in many unmanned aircraft industry for the utility of unmanned aircraft. In Korea, unmanned aircraft, is advancing the unmanned aircraft business from the government, it is determined at the core of creating economy. Government is one in which to advance the test operation in the development of private drone, to the construction of infrastructure and exports domestic sales. Unmanned aircraft has a lot of utility, but I have the risk of legal disputes. Unmanned aircraft is required to respond to the spill to the recording of operating routes and around the take-off and landing, which is recorded on the sensor and high-performance camera. Also, if the issue of invasion of privacy occurs, discussion of the limits of insurance and limits of responsibility has not been focused on unmanned aircraft operations. There is a risk of personal life exposure of people living in high-rise and low-rise by using the bar unmanned aircraft that can be produced in ultra-compact and noise unmanned aircraft in particular, when the unmanned aircraft is practical, of invasion of privacy is the possibility. Sometimes liability occurs in the operators of unmanned aircraft mental damage due to the operation of unmanned aircraft, due to private life exposed the public does not want. And is intended to inhibit the development of unmanned aircraft industry. There is no law related to unmanned aircraft for domestic aviation laws. On the basis of the application of the Personal Information Protection Law of the Civil Code, legal proposed regulations for infringement of unmanned aircraft privacy, to open a privacy protection conditions of the Aviation Law and the current proposal for privacy protection clause establishment of the special law enacted after the unmanned aircraft it is possible to present the proposal to provide a draft, guidelines related to unmanned aerial vehicles. If the laws that have been identified in the unmanned aircraft has not been established, when the conflict of infringement unmanned aircraft, privacy has occurred, the court is expected to be incorporated in the Personal Information Protection Law of the Civil Code. In this paper, as a preparatory measure, was presented the Aviation Law amendment of current for infringement unmanned aircraft, of privacy. It is determined that the current, special law of unmanned aircraft is what is enacted, it is determined that there is no possibility at the moment, and then amend the Aviation Law of the current, it is possible to privacy protection is reasonable. It can be to be able to present a scheme that can with revision of the aviation method for invasion of privacy and to prevent in advance through the presentation guidelines for unmanned aircraft operations.

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