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The Lords EU Committee has called for a tracking system for unmanned drones and their users.
In its latest report, the committee said it supported the creation of an online database for commercial users of drones, officially known as remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS).
But it added that a system tracking all drones, including smaller craft, was necessary to manage safety in the long-term.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
