Spatial Law and Policy Update (April 24, 2018)

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE

"Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law"

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy/Data Protection/Cybersecurity

Social Fitness Apps May Be More Harmful to User Privacy Than You Think  (CPO)

People love fitness trackers, but should employers give them out?  (Financial Times)

Ontario Court of Appeal finds high school girls have no reasonable expectation of privacy in surreptitious filming of their breasts by teacher at school  (Teresa Scassa)

Data Quality/Errors

Farming drone imagery often inaccurate  (Phys.org)

Licensing/Intellectual Property Rights

Monkey-selfie lawsuit finally ends: Court affirms adorable macaque can’t sue  (ars technica)

Government

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

     Watch the Skies with Kevin Pomfret  (American Bar Association)

    Google Is Indonesia's New Weapon in War on Illegal Fishing  (Bloomberg)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

How Uber moves the ‘blue dot’ to improve GPS accuracy in big cities  (The Verge)

UAVs

OK to Shoot Down Drones in Switzerland  (UAS Vision)

Drone incidents rise less than expected in Germany in 2017  (Japan News)

Hobby drone pilots in the EU and Switzerland will soon need a license  (Drone DJ)

Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Autonomous Vehicles

Drivers' mobile phone data to help beat traffic jams  (The Telegraph)

China has set its rules for testing self-driving cars  (Fast Company)

Remote Sensing

To keep foothold in government market, satellite imaging companies have to gain trust  (SpaceNews)

New paradigm in Earth observation  (BBC)

MISCELLANEOUS

LA councilman asks city attorney to “review possible legal action” against Waze  (ars technica)