With apologies for the gap in posting this, please find below the most recent Spatial Law and Policy Update prepared for the members of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy
Privacy
EU proposes 'right to be forgotten' by internet firms (BBC)
Google blurs woman's Street View pratfall (cnet)
Compromise on Draft European Data Protection Regulation in Reach (Global Privacy and Security Compliance Law Blog)
Data and privacy rears its head at DLD (Tech Crunch)
Consumers ditch websites with poor privacy policies (PC Pro)
Is It Legal for an Employer to Secretly Track an Employee's Personal Vehicle 24/7 for One Month? Perhaps! (Workplace Privacy Counsel)
How Data Sensitive Are Your Customers? (Forbes)
Schools to Monitor Obese Students, Raising Privacy Fears (Education News)
A privacy-centered economy (TechWorld)
National Security/Law Enforcement
Supreme Court Deals Blow To Government Surveillance, Saying Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking (Forbes)
Aus becoming surveillance state: Ludlam (ZDNet)
East Bay firm keeps log of private cars' locations (SF Gate)
Intellectual Property
The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism (Harper's Magazine)
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy (ARS Technica)
Data Quality
Personal Musings On The Authority Of OpenStreetMap (Archaeogeek)
What Caused Cruise Ship To Run Aground? (Sky News)
Costa Concordia: Rock Not Charted or Erroneous Navigation? (Hydro International)
Smart Grid
Smart utility meters dial up backlash (The Detroit News)
Spatial Data Infrastructures
Enabling Transit Solutions A Case for Open Data (Georgia Institute of Technology)
NGAC Delays Action on FGDC Until April Meeting (Directions Magazine)
Is There Room for Private Industry and Entrepreneurs in Spatial Data Infrastructure? (Vector One)
Remote Sensing
U.S. Government Looking To Lower Landsat Costs (Space News)
Satellite Images Reveal North Korean Progress on Nuclear Facility [Wired] (Space News)
Alternative Futures: United States Commercial Satellite Imagery in 2020 (Innovative Analytics and Training)
The Budget Threat and What Could be Lost (Imaging Notes)
Crowd-sourced
CITIZEN SCIENCE AND VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: CAN THESE HELP IN BIODIVERSITY STUDIES? (Brian Klinkenberg, University of British Columbia)
Tribes Effectively Barred From Making High-Tech Maps (Geodata Policy)
French Speedcam Warning Ban: NAVX Seizes Court Over New Law (GPS Business News)
GNSS
LightSquared claims interference tests were rigged (TG Daily)
Another test finds LightSquared satellite service interferes with GPS (The Washington Post with Bloomberg)
Miscellaneous
How fragile are the networks that we depend upon for today's GIS? (V1 Magazine)
Censorship in the world's largest democracy (Aljazeera)
Earthcomber Suing Real Estate Sites for Patent Infringement (Directions Magazine)
Mobile Technologies for Child Protection (Mobile Active)
Getting “Internet Freedom” Straight (Tech Crunch)
EU proposes 'right to be forgotten' by internet firms (BBC)
Google blurs woman's Street View pratfall (cnet)
Compromise on Draft European Data Protection Regulation in Reach (Global Privacy and Security Compliance Law Blog)
Data and privacy rears its head at DLD (Tech Crunch)
Consumers ditch websites with poor privacy policies (PC Pro)
Is It Legal for an Employer to Secretly Track an Employee's Personal Vehicle 24/7 for One Month? Perhaps! (Workplace Privacy Counsel)
How Data Sensitive Are Your Customers? (Forbes)
Schools to Monitor Obese Students, Raising Privacy Fears (Education News)
A privacy-centered economy (TechWorld)
National Security/Law Enforcement
Supreme Court Deals Blow To Government Surveillance, Saying Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking (Forbes)
Aus becoming surveillance state: Ludlam (ZDNet)
East Bay firm keeps log of private cars' locations (SF Gate)
Intellectual Property
The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism (Harper's Magazine)
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy (ARS Technica)
Data Quality
Personal Musings On The Authority Of OpenStreetMap (Archaeogeek)
What Caused Cruise Ship To Run Aground? (Sky News)
Costa Concordia: Rock Not Charted or Erroneous Navigation? (Hydro International)
Smart Grid
Smart utility meters dial up backlash (The Detroit News)
Spatial Data Infrastructures
Enabling Transit Solutions A Case for Open Data (Georgia Institute of Technology)
NGAC Delays Action on FGDC Until April Meeting (Directions Magazine)
Is There Room for Private Industry and Entrepreneurs in Spatial Data Infrastructure? (Vector One)
Remote Sensing
U.S. Government Looking To Lower Landsat Costs (Space News)
Satellite Images Reveal North Korean Progress on Nuclear Facility [Wired] (Space News)
Alternative Futures: United States Commercial Satellite Imagery in 2020 (Innovative Analytics and Training)
The Budget Threat and What Could be Lost (Imaging Notes)
Crowd-sourced
CITIZEN SCIENCE AND VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: CAN THESE HELP IN BIODIVERSITY STUDIES? (Brian Klinkenberg, University of British Columbia)
Tribes Effectively Barred From Making High-Tech Maps (Geodata Policy)
French Speedcam Warning Ban: NAVX Seizes Court Over New Law (GPS Business News)
GNSS
LightSquared claims interference tests were rigged (TG Daily)
Another test finds LightSquared satellite service interferes with GPS (The Washington Post with Bloomberg)
Miscellaneous
How fragile are the networks that we depend upon for today's GIS? (V1 Magazine)
Censorship in the world's largest democracy (Aljazeera)
Earthcomber Suing Real Estate Sites for Patent Infringement (Directions Magazine)
Mobile Technologies for Child Protection (Mobile Active)
Getting “Internet Freedom” Straight (Tech Crunch)
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