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B4UFLY

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B4UFLY Privacy Policy

B4UFLY is the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) mobile service , which allows users who have downloaded an app to their mobile device, to determine whether or not it is safe to fly a drone within a geographic area. The service uses the geo-location of a user’s mobile device, when turned on, to populate a map and display a status indicator to advise the user whether their area is safe for drone operation. If geo-location is not turned on, users will have to search a map of the entire...