Rozwój bezzalogowych statków powietrznych w swietle prawa do prywatnosci na gruncie Europejskiej Konwencji o Ochronie Praw Czlowieka

The development of unmanned aircraft in the light of the right to privacy under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights

Abstract

Growing number of areas where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are being utilized both by the widely understood State, and by the natural persons has raised a specific regulatory challenges. The relative ease whit which this emerging technology could be used to gather various type of data – images, audio, digital data – has put the potential impact on the right to privacy into the spotlight. This paper presents above mentioned issue in the right to privacy as embedded in the European Convention of Human Rights. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law on the subject as well as an analysis of its relevance to emerging UAV technologies.