Spatial Law and Policy Update (March 29, 2017)

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy/Data Protection/Cybersecurity

EU Data Privacy Rules and Penalties Reach America: Are You Ready? (JD Supra) 

Advances in mobile location services and what it means for privacy (Research Gate) 

Court Confirms Right to Be Forgotten Is Not Absolute (JD Supra)  

Data Re-Identification (Health Data Exploration Project) 

Employer Denied Access to Employee GPS Data  (The National Law Review)

Your Shareable Google Maps Lists May Be Really Interesting To Advertisers (NPR)

Data Quality/Errors

Data governance as an accelerator, not a roadblock (InfoWorld) 

Possible Incorrect GPS Coordinates Among Factors Being Probed In Saugatuck River Drowning: Cops  

Licensing/Intellectual Property Rights

Use of CC BY 4.0 licensed data in OpenStreetMap   

Wikimedia Sweden art map 'violated copyright'  (BBC)

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

   I’m not organizing Open Data Day DC this year — these three reasons won’t surprise you (Medium)

    

   

 Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

    How much evidence can you get from wearable devices, and is it reliable? (ABA Journal) 

    Carlsbad to photograph cars entering city

    Bill seeks to crack down on warrantless government tracking  (GPS World)

    Facebook Bans Use of User Data for Surveillance  (WSJ)

    UK public faces mass invasion of privacy as big data and surveillance merge  (The Guardian)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

This Is Your Brain on GPS Navigation (MIT Technology Review) 

GPS tracking redefines bus safety for many Lancaster County school districts (Lancaster Online)

Set rules on GPS data collection (The Japan Times)   

How auto dealers can use GPS and "starter interrupter" tech to disable your car (CBS This Morning)  

 

UAVs

As drone usage soars, potential for misuse also rises (WWLP 22 News)  

New regulations put future of drone business up in the air (The Chronicle Herald)  

Federal privacy laws won't necessarily protect you from spying drones (recode)  

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems

California DMV Proposes Autonomous Vehicle Regulations (Lexology)  

FTC, NHTSA to Conduct Workshop on June 28 on Privacy, Security Issues Related to Connected, Automated Vehicles (Federal Trade Commission)   

Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance (Reuters)  

Driverless-car bill approved by Colorado Senate, now on the road to House (The Denver Post)

  

Satellite Remote Sensing

Commentary | Commercial space innovation needs more government certainty (Space News)  

Commercial remote sensing companies seek streamlined regulations (Space News)