Image capturing devices: threat or good?

Authors

  • Aurelija Pūraitė Mykolas Romeris University, Academy of Public Security (Lithuania), Lithuania
  • Neringa Šilinskė Turiba University, Faculty of Law (Latvia),

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.144.157226

Keywords:

unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, dashboard camera, privacy, Latvia, Lithuania

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

Aurelija Pūraitė, Mykolas Romeris University, Academy of Public Security (Lithuania)

Associate Professor

 

Neringa Šilinskė, Turiba University, Faculty of Law (Latvia)

Doctoral student 

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2019-03-15

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Pūraitė, A., & Šilinskė, N. (2019). Image capturing devices: threat or good?. Problems of Legality, (144), 120–137. https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.144.157226

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