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Martins, Lavall_e and Silkoset 2021 Drone Use for COVID_19 Related Problems_ Techno_solutionism and its Societal Implications

1 Oct 2021

In Belgium, the college of public programme is being run by Malaysia’s Armed Forces and used prosecutors did not allow the use of drones by the police to to aid the police in managing the COVID-19 situation. [...] Yet, can the use of drones during The acceleration of regulatory processes the pandemic to perform clearly positive tasks (such as The recent functional expansion in the use of drones delivering medicine or supplies; see Sandvik and Jumbert, impacts current and upcoming implementation of new reg- 2016) alter this perception? While the image of drones in ulatory frameworks that aim at integrating t. [...] An perform specific tasks and generate data for specific purposes, acceptance of drone integration by default might lead to a for example to identify the dispersion of the contagion in a later rejection, which in the long run may impact the wider crowd, to monitor borders, and to track the movement of peo- integration process and all the previous regulatory work ple. [...] The potential proliferation of drones in the civil- erate the creation of the ‘data doubles’ that Bigo (2014) and ian airspace increases the likelihood of accidents due to fail- Haggerty and Ericson (2000) have addressed. [...] Bruno Oliveira Martins received funding from the extensive use of drones by the national authorities dur- the Research Council of Norway for the project “The integra- ing the COVID-19 pandemic, has generated a new socio- tion of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces” technical assemblage of actors, technologies and practices.
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