Image capturing devices: threat or good?
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https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.144.157226Keywords:
unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, dashboard camera, privacy, Latvia, LithuaniaAbstract
The authors of the paper ‘weight’ advantages and threat to privacy caused by the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and dashboard cameras. By analysing and comparing legal regulation of two gerographically, historically and culturally close countries (Latvia and Lithuania) they indicate differences of regulation of privacy, problematic aspects of their current national regulation on the usage of technologies in-topic and privacy protection and suggest possible solutions to the legal shortcomings found.
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