The Future of Drone Use: Opportunities and Threats from Ethical and Legal Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9789462651319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 386 str.

Bart Custers

Opis

Given the popularity of drones and the fact that they are easy and cheap to buy, it is generally expected that the ubiquity of drones will significantly increase within the next few years. This raises questions as to what is technologically feasible (now and in the future), what is acceptable from an ethical point of view and what is allowed from a legal point of view. Drone technology is to some extent already available and to some extent still in development. The aim and scope of this book is to map the opportunities and threats associated with the use of drones and to discuss the ethical and legal issues of the use of drones. Also, the question of how to regulate the use of drones in the future is addressed, by considering conditions and contents of future drone legislation and by analyzing privacy and other safeguards that can be taken.
Academics in several disciplines, such as law, ethics, sociology, politics and public administration, as well as practitioners and other people who may be confronted with the use of drones in their work, such as people working in the military, law enforcement, disaster management and infrastructure management should find the book of great value. Individuals and businesses with a specific interest in drone use are also part of the targeted audience.

Spis treści

Part I - Introduction

Chapter 1:Drones Here, There and Everywhere: Introduction and Overview 

Chapter 2:Drone Technology: Types, Payloads, Applications, Frequency Spectrum Issues and Future Developments

Chapter 3:Big Data, Drone Data: Privacy and Ethical Impacts of the Intersection Between Big Data and Civil Drone Deployments 

Part II –Opportunities and Threats

Chapter 4:Deliveries by Drone: Obstacles and Sociability

Chapter 5:Policing from Above: Drone Use by the Police 

Chapter 6:The Humanitarian Drone and the Borders: Unravelling the Rationales Underlying the Deployment of Drones in Border Surveillance

Chapter 7:The Humanitarian Use of Drones as an Emerging Technology for Emerging Needs

Chapter 8:Terrorism and National Security 

Part III – Ethical Issues 

Chapter 9:The Humanization of Drones: Psychological Implications on the Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon- Systems 

Chapter 10:Un-Manned? The Bodily Harms and Moral Valor of Drone Warfare

Chapter 11:Victims of Drone Warfare: Stretching the Boundaries of Conflict; Ethics and Remote Control Warfare

Chapter 12:Drones, Morality and Vulnerability: Two Arguments Against Automated Killing

Part IV – Legal Issues

Chapter 13:Key Provisions in Current Aviation Law

Chapter 14:Civilian Use of Drones as a Test Case for the Right to Privacy: An Israeli Perspective

Chapter 15:Access to an Effective Remedy and Reparations for Civilian Victims of Armed Drone Strikes

Chapter 16:A Comparative Global Analysis of Drone Laws: Best Practices and Policies

Part V – Conclusions

Chapter 17:Making Drones More Acceptable with Privacy Impact Assessments

Chapter 18:The Public Acceptance Challenge and Its Implications for the Developing Civil Drone Industry

O autorze

Bart Custers PhD MSc LLM is associate professor and head of research at eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. With a background in both law and physics, his research is focused law and digital technologies. He is also the former head of the research division on Crime, Law Enforcement and Sanctions of the research center (WODC) of the Ministry of Security and Justice in the Netherlands. His research interests include discrimination and privacy issues of new technologies, particularly data mining and profiling, and technology in policing. His research in the area of criminal law is focused on technologies that may contribute to law enforcement, criminal investigation and prosecution. Examples of such technologies are Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), wiretapping, fingerprints, forensic DNA research, database coupling, data mining and profiling, camera surveillance, network analyses and the use of drones.

Dr. Custers has published two books on discrimination and privacy in the context of Big Data. In 2015 he co-authored (in Dutch) a book on the use of drones. On a regular basis he gives lectures on profiling and privacy issues of new technological developments. He presented his work at international conferences in the United States, China, Japan, the Middle East and throughout Europe. He has published his work, over 80 publications, in both scientific and professional journals and newspapers.

Blurb

Given the popularity of drones and the fact that they are easy and cheap to buy, it is generally expected that the ubiquity of drones will significantly increase within the next few years. This raises questions as to what is technologically feasible (now and in the future), what is acceptable from an ethical point of view and what is allowed from a legal point of view. Drone technology is to some extent already available and to some extent still in development. The aim and scope of this book is to map the opportunities and threats associated with the use of drones and to discuss the ethical and legal issues of the use of drones.

This book provides an overview of current drone technologies and applications and of what to expect in the next few years. The question of how to regulate the use of drones in the future is addressed, by considering conditions and contents of future drone legislation and by analyzing issues surrounding privacy and safeguards that can be taken. As such, this book is valuable to scholars in several disciplines, such as law, ethics, sociology, politics and public administration, as well as to practitioners and others who may be confronted with the use of drones in their work, such as professionals working in the military, law enforcement, disaster management and infrastructure management. Individuals and businesses with a specific interest in drone use may also find in the nineteen contributions contained in this volume unexpected perspectives on this new field of research and innovation.

Bart Custers is Associate Professor and Head of Research at eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has presented his work at international conferences in the United States, China, Japan, the Middle East and throughout Europe and has published over 80 scientific, professional and popularizing publications, including three books.