Spatial Law and Policy Update (January 13, 2013)

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Legal/Policy Disciplines

Privacy

Why You'll Need A Big Data Ethics Expert (Information Week)

Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington? (Reason.com)

Let’s not go crazy over publishing gun lists (Reuters)

NY County Defies Law, Refuses To Release Gun Permit Info For Controversial Google Map (Tech Crunch)

Are Rights of Publicity the Fatal Flaw of the Mugshot Racket? (Citizen Media Law Project)

Hypocrisy in app location legislation (Lauren Weinstein)

Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them? (New York Times)

Facebook’s Stance On Protecting User Data Challenged In Oregon Murder Case (Tech Crunch)

Inmates using newspaper's gun owner map to threaten guards, sheriff says (Fox News)

Andy Kessler: In the Privacy Wars, It's iSpy vs. gSpy (Wall Street Journal)

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit (Wired)

      U.S. Tech Firms Facing Stronger European Data Protection Measures (New York Times)

      China Adopts Privacy Legislation Strengthening Online Personal Data Protection  (BakerHostetler)

      License Plate Recognition Logs Our Lives Long Before We Sin (LA Times)

Intellectual Property Rights

Online Games And Crowdsourced Creativity: The Next Frontier In Intellectual Property (Forbes)

Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects (Infotropism)

Irish Newspapers Attempt to Kill the Internet (The Spectator)

Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy? (Wall Street Journal)

Netherlands: Rejection of Ban on Illegal Downloading and Other Copyright Policy Motions  (Law Library of Congress)

Data Quality

      GIS Data: A Look at Accuracy, Precision, and Types of Errors  (GIS Lounge)

Law Enforcement

Can big data solve America’s gun problem? (Venture Beat)

Facebook’s Stance On Protecting User Data Challenged In Oregon Murder Case (Tech Crunch)

Lawmakers seek prison time for GPS violators (LA Times)

      License Plate Recognition Logs Our Lives Long Before We Sin (LA Times)

National Security

U.S. defense geo tools and services: the modern warrior's weaponry (GeoConnexion)

Satellites Spot China’s Mysterious New Warplane (Wired)

Experts: Drones basis for new global arms race (USA Today)

Japan and China step up drone race as tension builds over disputed islands (Guardian)

Crowdsourcing

How Waze Cleverly Uses Drivers To Make Better Maps Than Apple's (Forbes)

Technology Platforms

GNSS

Ground-based positioning tech could compete with GPS (Geospatial World)

UAVs

Missouri lawmaker wants drone use to require a warrant (Blacklisted News)

Japan and China step up drone race as tension builds over disputed islands (Guardian)

Smart Grid

Indian state uses GIS for effective power distribution (Geospatial World)

Intelligent Transportation System

Technology: five developments that could rewire your world (Guardian)

Among The Hot Trends For CES 2013: Cars That 'Run' On Android (Forbes)

Forget the Internet of Things: Here Comes the Internet of Cars (Wired)

Infographic: The Self-Driving, Ultra-Connected Car of the Future (Mashable)

Ford Partners With Glympse To Tell Your Friends Where You Are (Forbes)

Remote Sensing

Satellites Spot China’s Mysterious New Warplane (Wired)

Obama Drops Satellite Ban, Gives Aerospace Industry A Lift (Forbes)

Google Angers Staten Island Residents After It Dispatches Street View Cars to Sandy-Ravaged Neighborhoods  (Betabeat)

Spatial Data Infrastructures

G-tech used for rebuilding Christchurch after earthquake (Geospatial World)

White House to mandate machine-readable open data (Federal News Radio)

RFID

It's An Easily-Tracked World After All. Disney Parks Are Getting RFID-Enabled 'MagicBands.' (Forbes)

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit (Wired)

      Miscellaneous

        “Path to Mobile’s Future May Be ... Maps” - Wall Street Journal (Directions Magazine)

        Mobile’s future is in finding solutions to the problems that are all around us (Gigaom)

        Hurricane Sandy, protecting America, and bipartisanship beyond a hug (Washington Post)

        Google's Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal (The Atlantic)