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Personal data

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable person — from the air that includes faces, plates and behaviour patterns. GDPR governs it.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. From a drone's viewpoint that covers more than you might expect: recognisable faces, vehicle number plates, house numbers with people in frame, and even behaviour patterns — who regularly shows up where and when.

The moment footage contains personal data, GDPR governs it: the regulation decides how the material may be stored, used, shared with others and when it must be deleted. That applies to accidentally captured passers-by too, not only to deliberate filming.

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