Spatial Law and Policy Update

Privacy

ACLU: Wireless Carriers Enable Warrantless Cellphone Tracking (National Journal)

Machine learning for identification of cars (Quantitative Thoughts)

Privacy experts warn that new car black box bill doesn't go far enough (ars technica)

Privacy Suits Slamming App Developers (Corporate Counsel)

Police warn photos of kids with geo-tagging being used by paedophiles (Herald Sun)

Will you be a better driver with Big Brother watching you? (c/net)

Remote Sensing

A Military and Intelligence Clash Over Spy Satellites (New York Times)

Pentagon "can manage" satellite imagery cuts (Reuters)

Investigation on Envisat continues (ESA News)

Race for More Spectral Resolution for Earth Observation Satellites Is On (Directions Magazine)

UAVs

Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front (The Wall Street Journal)

Data Quality Liability Issues

Is My 3D Application Vulnerable If GNSS Fails? (3DVW)

Intellectual Property Rights

iiNet’s Hollywood ending: what does its court victory mean for copyright law? (Delimiter)

Crowdsourcing

Why You Could Be Prosecuted for Posting Olympics Photos to Facebook [UPDATED] (Mashable)

Internet

EU commission urged to be 'more ambitious' on digital technology (The Parliament.com)

Miscellaneous

Improving global road safety (UN General Assembly)

10 Uses of Google Earth That Have Made Positive Impacts on the World (Mashable)