Remote ID is here. Sort of. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, on December 26 (Merry Christmas!) announced a new *proposed* rule requiring drones "to be identifiable remotely." And then Christmas was officially canceled retroactively and drone pilots across the U.S. let out a collective primal scream (mostly via the Internet).

So, to put it mildly, there were concerns. And they came from all sorts of pilots and many have eagerly shared their opinion with the FAA during the comment period - where the feds review and consider the public's opinion about the new rules - and hope big changes are made before the rules become the law. The comment period, by the way, ends on March 2, 2020.

The Public Safety Drone Podcast hosts discuss these new rules and delve a little deeper into one aspect that could potentially be troubling: data. Who gets it, when do they get it and once they have it, what can they do with it.

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