Spatial Law and Policy

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

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 2, 2010)

Made possible by the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy

Privacy
Trust aims to safeguard mobile privacy
Canadian court to consider whether police officer has expectation of privacy in photo
House hearing on "Do Not Track" legislation on Dec 2
Geographical information as personal information (registration required)

Data Quality/Liability Issues
New Brunswick passes driver distraction legislation
USGS changing the way it does maps
What Steve Coast's move to Bing Really Means

Intellectual Property
Bing Maps donating aerial imagery to OpenStreetMaps
Victorian spatial council releases online map guidelines
GPS Business News confusing ownership with rights under license agreement

National Security/Law Enforcement
Saudi King suggests planting chips on detainees
Illinois EPA ups monitoring of large livestock farms

Crowd-sourcing
Next generation 911 system will accept text messaging and photos

Intelligent Transportation System
Real time traffic and GNSS

International
Google Maps faces July 2011 deadline to register in China

Miscellaneous
The Internent of Things

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Kevin: Richmond, Virginia, United States; 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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