Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 27, 2015)

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE

"Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law"

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy

CDT Proposes Privacy Best Practices for Drones  (Center for Democracy and Technology)  Imagine trying to apply these to other platforms . . . That is where we are headed.

Hyde Park visitors covertly tracked via mobile phone data  (The Guardian)

Agreement on Commission's EU data protection reform will boost Digital Single Market  

What happens when facial recognition tools are available to everyone  (Washington Post)

Data Quality

Licensing

Judge, siding with Google, refuses to shut down Waze in wake of alleged theft  (ars technica) This is an important case involving the copyrightability of geospatial data. 

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

The negative effects of open government data - investigating the dark side of open data  (ACM)

NYC’s Open Data Law Lacks Teeth, Lags Deadlines  (CityLimits)

    

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

     Cartographers beware! Starting next year 'wrong' maps of China will be subject to 200,000 RMB fines  (Shangaiist)

    Stolen laptop cannot be recovered, GPS not exact  (KRMG)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

U.S., Norwegian Paths to Encrypted Galileo Service Open in 2016 (SpaceNews)

Stolen laptop cannot be recovered, GPS not exact  (KRMG)

UAVs

Drone battle's next front: Your local government  (CNBC) 

State and Local Regulation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Fact Sheet  (Federal Aviation Administration)

Ski resorts discuss drone policies  (9 News)

Where does private land end and public airspace begin?  (DIY Drones)

Congressman Predicts Congressional Action On Drones  (CBS Pittsburgh)

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems

Smartwatches set to shake up life insurance  (The Australian)

Here's why lawyers are 'salivating' over self-driving cars  (Business Insider) “You're going to get a whole host of new defendants,” Kevin Dean, an attorney suing General Motors over its faulty ignition switches,told Bloomberg. “Computer programmers, computer companies, designers of algorithms, Google, mapping companies, even states. It's going to be very fertile ground for lawyers.” [emphasis added].

Remote Sensing

Omnibus Fully Funds Major NOAA Satellite Programs  (SpaceNews)

Crowdsourcing

AI Machine Learns to Drive Using Crowdteaching  (Technology Review)

MISCELLANEOUS

Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management: Five to Ten Year Vision  (UN-GGIM) The Centre was a significant contributor to the Legal and Policy Section of this report.