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Why Location Matters: The Legal and Policy Issues Associated with Location

Monday, August 15, 2011

Spatial Law and Policy Update (August 15, 2011)

Privacy
Privacy pirates: Self-regulation is a sinking ship (IT World)

Facial recognition App enables next-level web-stalking (Good Technology)

Data Quality
London Riots Facial Recognition Vigilantes Abandon Their Project (Forbes)

23% of UK motorists admit racing to beat satnav ETA (GPSbusinessnews)

Inaccurate geospatial data delays law enforcement (Geospatial World)

Intellectual Property Rights
Ministers Tell Agencies to Open Up Databases (stuff.co.nz)

Law Enforcement/National Security
Rioters' mobile phones could help police investigation (BBC)

BART pulls a Mubarak in San Francisco (EFF)

Summary of Electronic Communication Privacy Act (CDT)

License plate software stirs privacy debate (delawareonline)

GPS
Lightsquared update (NSGIC News)

Intelligent Transportation System
Ford investigates creating a mobile data network using the cars themselves (TMCnet)

Miscellaneous
Let's talk about location


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Kevin is a lawyer that has been focused on the legal and policy issues associated with the collection, use, storage, and distribution of location and other types of geoinformation since 2006. These issues cut across legal disciplines (privacy, licensing, intellectual property rights, liability, national security, open data) and technology platforms (UAVs, satellites,smart phones, wearables, internet of things, smart cities, intelligent transportation systems). He is also the founder the Executive Director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, He writes and speaks extensively around the the world on spatial law and technology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Prior to attending law school, Kevin served as a satellite imagery analyst. In that capacity he helped to develop imagery collection strategies to monitor arms control agreements. He also served as the special assistant to the U.S. government official responsible for developing the intelligence community's satellite imagery collection and exploitation requirements.
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