Drones, Resistance and Countersurveillance / Ales Zavrsnik. Political and Moral Economies of Dual Technology Transfers : Arming Police Drones / Kristin Bergtora -- (F)utility of Privacy Laws : The Case of Drones? / Primoz Gorkic -- Re-bordering the Peripheral Global North and Global South : Game of Drones, Immobilising Mobile Bodies and Decentering Perspectives on Drones in Border Policing / Sanja Milivojevic -- Deploying Drones in Policing Southern European Borders : Constraints and Challenges for Data Protection and Human Rights / Luisa Marin and Kamila Krajcikova -- Death from the Sky : International Legal and Practical Issues on the Use of Armed Drones / Melanie Groof -- Predators' Rule of Terror / Vasja Badalic -- Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Under Air Law / Pablo Mendes de Leon and Benjamin Ian Scott -- Droning on About Journalism : Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Newsgathering / David Goldberg -- Drones, Resistance and Countersurveillance / Ales Zavrsnik.
Summary:
"This book tackles the regulatory issues of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or Remotely-Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), which have profound consequences for privacy, security and other fundamental liberties. Collectively known as “drones,” they were initially deployed for military purposes: reconnaissance, surveillance and extrajudicial executions. Today, we are witnessing a growth of their use into the civilian and humanitarian domain. They are increasingly used for goals as diverse as news gathering, aerial inspection of oil refinery flare stacks, mapping of the Amazonian rain-forest, crop spraying and search and rescue operations. The civil use of drones is becoming a reality in the European Union and in the US.The drone revolution may be a new technological revolution. Proliferation of the next generation of “recreational” drones show how drones will be sold as any other consumer item. The cultural perception of the technology is shifting, as drones are increasingly being used for humanitarian activities, on one hand, but they can also firmly be situated in the prevailing modes of postmodern governance on the other hand"--Back cover.
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