Spatial Law and Policy

Why Location Matters: The Legal and Policy Issues Associated with Location

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Spatial Law and Policy Update (Oct 23,2010)

Spatial Law and Policy Update (from the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy)
Privacy
Tracking devices used in school badges
Facebook and Zynga face privacy lawsuit
Google ditches Street View wi-fi scanning

Law Enforcement/National Security
Pakistan Moves to Bar Unregistered Mapping Companies
Student reports GPS device on car
Bolster Law on Wiretapping
Fourth Amendment Implications in Using Remote Sensing in Criminal Law
DHS using social media to check on marriage fraud

Data Quality/Liability
A critique of OpenStreetMap
Who is liable for a driverless car accident?
Reported GPS failure in China results in loss of child

Intellectual Property Rights
Trap doors in cartography
Washington State court finds metadata subject to Public Records Law
Central Platte NRD appeals dismissal of GIS lawsuit

Community Remote Sensing
Egypt imposes SMS restrictions ahead of elections
OpenStreetMap poses challenge to TomTom and Nokia
Fighting Crime From Home

Smart Grid
CDT Details Smart Grid Privacy Recommendations

Spatial Data Infrastructures
Geospatial Act Proposed for Malaysia

Miscellaneous
Japan to ask Google to change name of disputed islands
name of disputed islands
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Kevin is a lawyer that has been focused on the legal and policy issues associated with the collection, use, storage, and distribution of location and other types of geoinformation since 2006. These issues cut across legal disciplines (privacy, licensing, intellectual property rights, liability, national security, open data) and technology platforms (UAVs, satellites,smart phones, wearables, internet of things, smart cities, intelligent transportation systems). He is also the founder the Executive Director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, He writes and speaks extensively around the the world on spatial law and technology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Prior to attending law school, Kevin served as a satellite imagery analyst. In that capacity he helped to develop imagery collection strategies to monitor arms control agreements. He also served as the special assistant to the U.S. government official responsible for developing the intelligence community's satellite imagery collection and exploitation requirements.
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