Ensuring the Security of Personal Data Collected by Drone Technology

The topic of the investigation belongs to studies of drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and withal intersects with the sphere of information security. The present study is focused on ensuring the security of data collected by drones. We resort to theoretical and practical questions of data protection. The general purpose of this study is to reveal a wide range of aspects of data collection and then to offer some possible solutions to current problems in this sphere. To achieve this goal, there exists a list of tasks: to do a research on practice of using UAVs, to explore some ways of stealing personal data through UAVs, to analyze legislative regulation of UAVs. The methodological basis of this research contains scientific articles of leading domestic and foreign scientific figures, as well as the legislative base of the Russian Federation. The theoretical methods used in this study include analysis that helps to divide the studied material into components, and then to study the individual parts of the elements. In addition, the synthesis method, which integrates parts into a whole, also helps to conduct a study. Another important method is the classification, which distributes information by comparison. Some methods related to the study of practice of the technology use and its results are also used. On this basis, specific facts are collected; phenomena and connections between them are identified and described. In this research, some important results were obtained: the legislative systems of Russia, the USA and the UK were compared, several problems in Russian legislative system were indicated, some tips for improving the UAV in order to ensure greater safety were offered and UAV classification that will help to simplify their regulation was developed. Moreover, certain adjustments to current Russian legislation were proposed.