Read our recommendations to the DGCA on the Draft UAS (Drones) Rules. Our main recommendations were the introduction of privacy protecting measures and the prohibition of aerial surveillance.
We wrote to the MCA and DGCA asking them to recall the conditional exemption allowing the use of drones for COVID-19 related operations and to commence an investigation into the ongoing illegal use of drones by the Delhi Police for mass surveillance.
With reports now emerging that the Delhi Police is using drones to check for people who are breaking the curfew in Delhi, we examine responses we have received in reply to Right to Information requests filed about the usage of drones in Delhi in February.