Spatial Law and Policy Update (February 21, 2016)

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE

"Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law"

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones  (Fusion)

Apple’s FBI Battle Is Complicated. Here’s What’s Really Going On  (Wired)

Data Quality

The Importance of Data Set Provenance for Science  (EOS)

The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people  (ars technica)

Licensing

Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge  (ScienceAlert)

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

    NGA: Unclassified Arctic DEMs a treasure trove of data  (Federal News Radio)

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

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

   Antonin Scalia, The 'Tiny Constable,' And Why Cops Need Warrants For GPS Car Trackers 

   Apple’s FBI Battle Is Complicated. Here’s What’s Really Going On  (Wired) 

   10 weeks of video evidence from utility-pole camera didn't require warrant, 6th Circuit says  (Washington Post)

    According to these court documents, turning your phone on is consent to being tracked (TNW News)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate to an Inch  (Gizmodo)

Syrian gov’t not given GPS data of hospital hit by strike  (Al Aribiya)

UAVs

Great Neck Estates eyes banning drones in village  (Newsday)

Drones pose 'real threat' to civil aviation: Iata chief  (BBC)

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems

NHTSA chief takes conservative view on autonomous vehicles  (ZDNet)

Satellite Remote Sensing

Third Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus  (GeoConnexion)

In wake of canceled DMSP launch, Air Force plans three new weather satellites (Space News)  

Crowdsourcing

 This app lets Iranians know ‘where the morality police are located’  (Al Arabiya)

 This App Turns Your iPhone Into A Dash Cam With Machine Vision  (Forbes)

MISCELLANEOUS

Strava artist draws pictures with his bike and GPS  (BBC)

STREETMAP.EU LIMITED vs. GOOGLE INC.  

Austin staffer that used ‘inappropriate’ map resigns  (KXAN)