NTIA Postpones Meeting on Developing Drone Privacy Guide

NTIA postponed Friday's meeting of stakeholders continuing their work to develop a best practices privacy guide aimed at commercial and private drone users, possibly until May. John Verdi, NTIA director of privacy initiatives, said Tuesday in an email to participants that a group of stakeholders has been making "excellent progress" on a revised draft, but that draft just won't be ready before the meeting. He said the participants expect to circulate the draft to the full group by April 22. Verdi said the plan is to reschedule the meeting to early May. "We recognize that the next meeting will be more constructive for everyone if stakeholders are able to review and consider a revised best practices document," he wrote. The multistakeholder meetings have been ongoing since summer to produce a nonbinding guide for drone users. Progress appears to have been made over several meetings, but participants haven't been able to reach consensus partly due to the level of detail that some want included in the document (see 1602240048).