This page does not pretend to be a detailed resource for information on UAVs and Drones.
The page exists for the purpose of noting, for discussing in class, the wide variety of purposes that UAVs can be applied to in many of the topics taught in business and marketing and internet marketing classes, such as

• delivery of products (the "P" for Place)
• observation and surveillance, 
• a tool for competitor intelligence
• privacy issues

• the development and application of new and synthetic materials
• lighter weight means loner hover times and greater maneuverability
• advances in the tasks drones undertake
• such as taking better images when there are more advances in imaging technology
• communications advances, which allows for longer range of comms with the vehicle and allowing for downloading and uploading data faster

• advances in synthetic and composite materials
• light weight means
• more time hovering
• greater speed to cover more area
• capacity to carrying heavier cameras, microphones etc.
• power and propulsion
• maneuverability
• miniaturization
• cost - affordability
• once the cost drops to the range where average people can buy a simple unit, there will be a rapid rise in the diversity of uses

Diversity of applications may be as varied as what we see in smartphone apps in 2014
 

I do not have a unit on "phones". 

It has been interesting to observe the evolution of phones in the past 20 years since it is a device which most people over 30, have witnessed with their own experience by owning these products.

The following list of images represents the progression of phones I have owned since 1990 to present.
 

	1990
	1996
	2006
	2009
	2012

Perhaps an analogy might be
 

	=	2010 United States Airforce Predator UAV
	=	2014 drone the size of a textbook with a GoPro camera mounted
	=	2021 ??

What can drones do, that would effect privacy considerations?

• Long Distance surveillance
• Thermal vision - to see people in structures or heavy woods
• Radar
• Biometrics - facial recognition

• "High-power zoom lenses that could increase the chances of individuals being surveilled from a great distance.
• Night vision, infrared, ultraviolet, thermal imaging, and LIDAR (light detection and ranging) that enables UAVs to detect and enhance detail.
• Radar technologies that can penetrate walls and earth enabling the tracking of individuals even inside buildings, through cloudy conditions and through foliage.
• Video analytics technology, which is improving rapidly and would be able to recognize and respond to specific people, events and objects, or even flag changes in routines to identify particular movement patterns as “suspicious.” This could also include things like license plate readers.
• Distributed video, whereby a number of UAVs work in concert with multiple video cameras.
• Facial recognition or other “soft biometric recognition” that enables the UAV to recognize and track personal attributes such as height, age, gender and skin colour."

See 
 .tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/general-recavi-uav-2265.htm 
for a discussion of regulations
"Section 602.41 of the CARs (Canadian Aviation Regulations) states, no person shall operate an unmanned air vehicle in flight except in accordance with a Special Flight Operation Certificate (SFOC). Section 623.65(d) outlines information that should be submitted when making an application: "
 

Which means...you cannot take a medium sized drone and fly it down the main street of a village to take images of the stores for the business development office without contacting Transport Canada first, and dealing with several federal and local government regulations.