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Kentucky committee advances drone-surveillance protections and approves cleanup to state data-privacy law
Summary
The House committee on Small Business and Information Technology passed House Bill 19, creating civil remedies against unauthorized drone surveillance, and approved House Bill 473, a limited cleanup to last year’s consumer data-privacy law (House Bill 15). Both measures cleared the committee with favorable reports to the full House.
The House Committee on Small Business and Information Technology on Feb. 2025 advanced two bills: House Bill 19, which creates civil protections against unauthorized drone surveillance, and House Bill 473, a technical cleanup to last year’s consumer data-privacy statute.
Representative John Hodgson, sponsor of House Bill 19, told the committee the bill “establishes basic protections for citizens from unauthorized surveillance via drone of their persons in real property and provides a path for injunctive relief and civil action.” Hodgson said current drone rules do not prevent surveillance by “a nosy neighbor or a malicious actor.” The committee adopted a…
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