The Spatial Law and Policy Update

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Privacy

Sprint's Decision to Stop Using Carrier IQ a Win for Privacy Advocates (PC World)

Amazon Granted Location Tracking Patent (Slashdot)

Carrier IQ: Actually, we don’t give your data to the FBI — or any other law enforcement (Venture Beat)

Civil liberties group calls for privacy protections involving domestic drones (CNN)

Intellectual Property

Version 4.0 – Public Discussion Launches (Creative Commons)

National Security/Law Enforcement

Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments (Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings)

Government is spying on you! (Daily Bhaskar)

Spatial Data Infrastructures

California Supreme Court to hear case for free and open access to county geospatial data (Between the Poles)
UAVs

European Commission Announces New Open Data Policy Package (Semantic Web)

Did Spoofing Down Drone? (GPS World)

Privacy

NY court upholds GPS tracker on worker's car (Wall Street Journal)

Is data safe in brands' hands? (Marketing Week)

Official: White House privacy paper imminent (Politico)

First Draft of European Privacy Reform Leaked to the Public (Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog)

How Carrier IQ Could Have Avoided Its Dumbest Move (techcrunch)

O'Brien: Privacy, schmivacy. I just can't get worked up over the latest freakouts (Mercury News)

Surveillance (techcrunch)

Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws (Computer World)

How the Data Protection Act's death will punish the UK economy (ITPRO)

Federal Judge: No Strict Liability for Data Resellers (Law Technology News)

Carrier IQ Data Collection Technically Legit, Say Researchers (Information Week)


Intellectual Property

Congress Asks NOAA to Consider Charging for Data (Science Magazine)


National Security/Law Enforcement

South Korea boosts review of social media (CNN)

India urges social media sites to block objectionable content - reports (Reuters)

Web Surveillance Software and Jobs (Wall Street Journal)

Are These Satellite Images Exposing America's Secrets? (Fox News)


UAVs

Drone journalism? The idea could fly in the U.S. (The Washington Post Blog)

Police employ Predator drone spyplanes on homefront (LA Times)


Satellite Navigation Systems

Lightsqured Update (Directions Magazine)

The Drone as Privacy Catalyst (Stanford Law Review)

LightSquared Update - LS: We’ll Go Low Power, Search for Leaker on Report 12/14/11 (Directions Magazine)

Commercial Satellite Imagery

White House Orders Commercial Spy Sat Study As Deep Cuts Rumored (Aol Defense)

Miscellaneous

The Internet Gets Physical (The New York Times)

O.E.C.D. Calls on Members to Defend Internet Freedoms (The New York Times)

Reading the toll leaves: How trucks can be economic indicators (CNN)

December 12, 2011

Intelligent Transportation Systems

“Honk If you Are Wearing a Thong” – Hacked Highway Sign Prompts Washington, DC Suburban Drivers To Disclose Choice of Underwear (Transport Gooru)

Miscellaneous

How Twitter Proves That Place Matters (The Atlantic Cities)

Should Freedom of Information Requests Extend to Technology and Software? (Forbes) 

ISACA: Users Will Soon Not Be Able to Opt Out of Location Data Sharing (CSO)

FBI denies using controversial cellphone tracking software (The Hill)

US official: Iran will find it hard to exploit captured drone because of US measures (The Washington Post)