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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Spatial Law and Policy Update (September 7, 2011)




Raising Awareness of Where Geospatial Technology is Taking the Law


Privacy

Cloud Industry Developing Privacy Standard for Mobile Apps  (nextgov)

5 Unexpected Places You Can Be Tracked With Facial Recognition Technology (AlterNet)

Haiti study: Mass mobile phone tracking can be laudable (The A Register)

Kraft To Use Facial Recognition Technology To Give You Macaroni Recipes (Forbes)

Microsoft collects phone location data without permission(cnet)

Hidden CCTV cameras to be audited amid privacy concerns (Courier Mail)

5 Location-Tracking Rights You Should Demand (Information Week)

StopSmartMeters.Org

Data Quality

Old Data - New Data When To Collect Geospatial Data (Vector One)

Better Pipeline Data Governance  (Pipeline & Gas Journal)

How Hard is the Local Search Problem  (Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media)

"Closed" in error on Google Maps, Merchants Seek Fixes (New York Times)

Intellectual Property Rights

Not A Seed of Doubt: Substantial Extraction of Database (LexisNexis Communities)

Law Enforcement

Traffic cameras have new prey: criminals (USA Today)

Dehli to use RS tech to check encroachment (Geospatial World)

Miscellaneous

Courts Skeptical of Facebook Evidence  (Connecticut Law Tribune) 
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