Spatial Law and Policy Update (January 26, 2015)

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy

Judge to review police records on secret Stingray cellphone tracking system (Chicago Tribune)

Intellectual Property Rights for Instagram, Flickr and Twitter Photos (The Social Ms)

Privacy & Security in the Internet of Things (JD Supra) 

Swarming Regulation of Personal Data in the US Tech Sector (Pulse)

Privacy and Drone Spying (The New York Times)

China: When big data meets big brother (Financial Times)

FTC Releases Its Big Data Bible (Forbes)

Data Quality

Turning on the Lights in a Dark (Data) Room (JD Supra)

19TH-CENTURY ATLASES INCLUDED HUNDREDS OF FAKE ISLANDS (Atlas Obscura)

How Reliable are Satellite Temperatures? (Yale Climate Connections Youtube)

Lost phones are constantly tracked to this Atlanta home and no one knows why (Extreme Tech)

Licensing

Copyright Question: Does David Bowie Get The Copyright On Computer Generated Lyrics? (TechDirt)

Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law (Slate)

Intellectual Property Rights for Instagram, Flickr and Twitter Photos (The Social Ms)

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

The economic impact of open data: what do we already know? (Medium)

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

The Pentagon Is Worried About Hacked GPS (The National Interest)

Lawsuit against Jacksonville over police misuse of database settles (Databreaches.net)

Massachusetts high court orders suspect to decrypt his computers (arsTechnica) 

Bill would restrict cell phone, GPS use for Massachusetts drivers (wnyt.com)   

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

LightSquared Seeks FCC Approval for GPS ‘Coexistence’ Plan (Inside GNSS) 

The Pentagon Is Worried About Hacked GPS (The National Interest)

The Next Computing Frontier: Geography (Motherboard)

India To Launch Fifth Navigation Satellite- Countdown Begins (NDTV)

UAVs

Bill requiring warrant for drone surveillance heads to Christie's desk (NJ.com)

Regulations Matter: 3 Regions Crushing the U.S. in Drone Industry (Drone Life)

Airbus reveals 'drone killer' camera system that can automatically detect and disable UAVs (Daily Mail)

Google and NASA developing air traffic control for drones (UAV Expert News)

Call 9-1-1, get a drone? Maybe some day, says N.C. State researcher (Triangle Business Journal)

Governments Urged To Prepare Against Nefarious UAV Use (Aviation Week Network)

Sen. Hannah-­Beth Jackson’s new drone bill would affect wide range of properties (Ventura County Star)

Drone Legislation Would Require Owners To Buy Insurance, Get UAV ‘License Plates’ (CBS Los Angeles)

FAA Commercial-Drone Rule Expected by Summer (UAV Expert News)

North Carolina DOT creates one-stop permits site for drones (fayobserver.com)

Seven Things Every Lawyer Should Know About Drones in 2016 (Law Practice Today)

China:- New drone regulatory system to limit accidents (sUASNews)

When Good Drones Go Bad (UAV Expert News)

Navigable Airspace: Where Private Property Rights End and Navigable Airspace Begins (On The Radar)

Opinion: Federal and state laws must address drone-privacy issues (NorthJersey.com)

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems

Who really owns your Internet of Things data? (ZD Net)

Get to Know Mobileye in Just 7 Slides (The Motely Fool)   

Self-Driving Cars Crash Less Often Than Those With Human Drivers: Study (Huffpost Tech)

Google’s autonomous cars would have crashed 13 times without the intervention of human drivers (Venture Beat)

Self-Driving Cars Are Rolling Closer to a U.S. Road Near You (Bloomberg Business) 

President Obama wants to spend $4 billion on self driving cars (Business Insider)

Connected Car: Regulatory Renewal for the Next Great Device (New Europe)

Remote Sensing

DOI Remote Sensing Activities 2015 (US Department of Interior)

Crowdsourcing

Can crowdsourcing decipher the roots of armed conflict?  (GCN)

MISCELLANEOUS

Legislator Wants To Ban People From Posting Pictures Of Accidents To Social Media For At Least One Hour (TechDirt)

Google Maps Guesses Where You’re Headed Now (The Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist (The Wall Street Journal)