Sunday, December 27, 2015

Spatial Law and Policy Update (December 27, 2015)

SPATIAL LAW AND POLICY UPDATE
"Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law"


LEGAL DISCIPLINES

Privacy

CDT Proposes Privacy Best Practices for Drones  (Center for Democracy and Technology)  Imagine trying to apply these to other platforms . . . That is where we are headed.




Data Quality

Licensing

Judge, siding with Google, refuses to shut down Waze in wake of alleged theft  (ars technica) This is an important case involving the copyrightability of geospatial data. 

Government

    Spatial Data Infrastructure/Open Data


    
    Public Safety/Law Enforcement/National Security



TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

GNSS



UAVs







Internet of Things/Smart Grid/Intelligent Transportation Systems


Here's why lawyers are 'salivating' over self-driving cars  (Business Insider) “You're going to get a whole host of new defendants,” Kevin Dean, an attorney suing General Motors over its faulty ignition switches,told Bloomberg. “Computer programmers, computer companies, designers of algorithms, Google, mapping companies, even states. It's going to be very fertile ground for lawyers.” [emphasis added].

Remote Sensing


Crowdsourcing


MISCELLANEOUS

Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management: Five to Ten Year Vision  (UN-GGIM) The Centre was a significant contributor to the Legal and Policy Section of this report. 

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