Weekly Roundup 12/21/15

12/14/15 -12/20/2015 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military’s future-making technology organization, is playing a crucial role in the development …

The Life and Death of a Drone Bill

By Arthur Holland Michel On January 26, 2015, California Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced a short, simple bill to the State Senate. S.B. 142, which was vetoed earlier this month by California Governor Jerry Brown after passing comfortably in the state legislature, sought to restrict the recreational and commercial use of …

What You Need to Know About Paparazzi Drones

By Arthur Holland Michel and Dan Gettinger On September 30, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that is aimed, at least in part, at preventing paparazzi from using  drones to snoop on celebrities. While the text of A.B. 2306 does not include the word “drone” or “UAV” …