AMA Drone Report Remote ID January 2020

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I hate this proposal largely because of the privacy issues (e.g., public will be able to see your flight location and government will have every bit of information about all of your flights...take off locations and all flight telemetry) and because of the additional fees that I will have to pay under this new regulation (e.g., monthly subscription fees that will surely increase with time, fees to register each and every drone, increase phone data plan cost because I'll now be required to transmit my drone's telemetry to the USS once per second) that I will have to pay to enjoy the hobby. The FAA, through it's USS surrogates will have access to ALL of my detailed flight data for EVERY single flight I make and thus have the potential of fining me for any violation based on that flight data. For example, they could determine if a particular flight was BVLOS or if you inadvertently flew to 401 feet AGL. It would be quite easy for the FAA to create an application that would scour through all new flight data added in the database each night and auto generate citations for violations and send it to you via email (because they have of all of your personal information). The possibilities of terrible things that could be done with all of this data are mind blowing. The good news wrt to flying in remote location without data service/internet service. Actually the proposal states that if you have a Standard RemoteID compliant drone and there is no internet service available then you will be able to take off and fly as long as your drone's broadcasting feature is operational (and the only reason it wouldn't be operational is if it were "broken"). The drone's onboard broadcasting feature does NOT require internet connectivity (or data service). And if there is no internet connection it states that you will not be required to connect with a USS. This is the concession that the FAA has made to allow for flying in remote areas where no data or internet service is available.