Spatial Law and Policy Update (April 8, 2018)

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE

"Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law"

LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy/Data Protection/Cybersecurity

Amazon's idea for employee-tracking wearables raises concerns  (CNN)

Uber implements HIPAA compliance program for new patient transportation service  (IAPP)

Licensing/Intellectual Property Rights

Court Says Scraping Websites And Creating Fake Profiles Can Be Protected By The First Amendment  (TechDirt)

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data

    THE TRICKY ETHICS OF THE NFL'S NEW OPEN DATA POLICY  (Wired)

    France to spend $1.8 billion on AI to compete with U.S., China  

    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security

     Mystery Stingray devices discovered in Washington  (BBC)

     Location data helps nab culprits in CBSE question paper leak in India  (Geospatial World)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS

Fake news hits GNSS industry with GLONASS-BeiDou ‘merger’  (GPS News)

UAVs

Law on drone assistants to be scrapped in favor of remote observation  (Japan Times)

Digital sky rules, multi-ministry approvals further delays drone regulations  (Factor Daily)

Remote Sensing

Pakistan’s PRSS-1 and PakTES-1A Earth Observation Satellites to be Launched by China in June 2018  (SpaceWatch)

Falcon 9 deploys Iridium satellites after SpaceX ends video citing NOAA’s orders  (SpaceNews)

NOAA speeds up remote sensing license reviews amid broader regulatory changes  (SpaceNews)

MISCELLANEOUS

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS