Avoid Violating Federal Laws

Three Questions to Ask to Understand Which Drone Detection & Defense Is Legal

triggered a new Counter UAS industry.

Some vendors, in their eagerness to get to market quickly, built detection systems that violate federal laws.

The rapid rise in safety and privacy concerns related to small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)

are illegal for use by commercial entities as well as state and local governments.

“Jamming” products such as that have been pulled from the US market because they represent more risk than the drones themselves.

Defense techniques available to US military

will help you avoid inadvertently violating federal laws.

Three simple questions

1. How Does the System Detect the Drone Type?

If the system detects the physical RF signal presence and matches to a known sUAS database or identifies it as a pattern likely of an unknown drone type, it operates legally.

1. How Does the System Detect the Drone Type?

However, if the system decrypts and decodes the communication between the

drone and the controller to extract the drone type it violates Electronic Communications Privacy Act:

18 U.S. Code Chapter 206 - PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES the term “pen register” means a device or process which records or decodes dialing,

routing, addressing, or signaling information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a wire or electronic communication is transmitted…

…no person may install or use a pen register or a trap and trace device without first obtaining a court order …

Whoever knowingly violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title or

imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

1. How Does the System Detect the Drone Type?

2. How Does the System Determine the Drone and Pilot Location?

If the system determines the drone and pilot locations through physical signal triangulation among multiple detection units there is no violation.

2. How Does the System Determine the Drone and Pilot Location?

However, if the system locates the pilot by reading command communications between the drone and controller such as the

“Return to Launch” or “current drone” GPS coordinates, it violates Electronic Communications Privacy Act:

18 U.S. Code Chapter 206 - PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES

2. How Does the System Determine the Drone and Pilot Location?

That’s easy. If you are not US Military, none are legal.

3. What Mitigation Techniques Are Offered?

That’s easy. If you are not US Military, none are legal.

18 U.S. Code § 32 - Destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities (2)places or causes to be placed a destructive device or substance in, upon, or in proximity to, or otherwise

makes or causes to be made unworkable or unusable or hazardous to work or use, any such aircraft, or any part or other materials used or intended to be used in connection with the operation of such aircraft, if such placing or causing to be placed or such making or causing to be made is likely to endanger the safety of any such aircraft;

The FAA modernization of 2012 defined UAS as aircraft Whoever willfully violates shall be fined or imprisoned not more than twenty years or both.

47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of

any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government. October 2014 - $600,000 fine against Marriott for blocking guests personal Wi-Fi. October 2015 - $718,000 fine against M.C. Dean, Inc. (M.C. Dean) for apparently interfering with and disabling

the operation of consumers’ Wi-Fi devices at the Baltimore Convention Center (BCC)

3. What Mitigation Techniques Are Offered?

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