Spatial Law and Policy Update (February 11, 2016)

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy

Google takes wider action on 'right to be forgotten'  (BBC) 

Spying through strangers' webcams just got easier  (CNBC)

Give Up Your Data to Cure Disease  (NYT) My concern is that laws and regulation that impact the collection/use of geodata will have a similar impact on the geospatial community.

Breaking: EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to Replace Safe Harbor  (Chronicle of Data Protection)

Data Quality

The long road to fixing Flint's water  (Marketplace)
 

Licensing

Legal Research Firm Sues Over Whether State Regulations Can Be Copyrighted (Daily Report)  

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

    Legal Research Firm Sues Over Whether State Regulations Can Be Copyrighted (Daily Report)  

    The Waze Effect: AI & The Public Commons  (Blog Post)

    

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

     Ten weeks of public camera surveillance not a search, 6th Circuit rules  (Washington Post)

    The StingRay’s tale  (Economist)

    US intelligence chief: we might use the internet of things to spy on you  (The Guardian)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

GPS Mix-Up Brings Wrong Turn, and Celebrity, to an American in Iceland  (NYT)

GPS error caused '12 hours of problems' for companies  (BBC)

India one step closer to launching its own ‘GPS’  (The National)

UAVs

FAA Reauthorization Bill Still Leaves Much To Be Desired For Commercial Drone Operators  (TechCrunch)

How Spy Agencies Hacked into Israeli Military Drones to Collect Live Video Feeds  (The Hacker News)

The Importance of Safe and Legal Drone Operations  (Globe and Mail)

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems

US intelligence chief: we might use the internet of things to spy on you  (The Guardian)

Spying through strangers' webcams just got easier  (CNBC)

Satellite Remote Sensing

REPORT Satellite Images Point Finger at Burundian Forces in Mass Killing (BBC)

A Space Station, With Surveillance Cameras for Hire  (NYT)

Next Landsat spacecraft would launch two years sooner under White House plan (Space News)  

Crowdsourcing

Can citizen science empower disenfranchised communities?  (The Conversation)

MISCELLANEOUS

Depth-sensing cameras will open up a whole new frontier for smartphones  (VentureBeat)

THE CHANGING GEOSPATIAL LANDSCAPE A Second Look  (National Geospatial Advisory Committee)