Google Maps - Pushing the Limits of Spatial Privacy?

Attached is a link to a New York Times blog on a feature of Google Maps that allows Google to "know' within varying amounts of accu...

Christmas Shopping

I am sure you have noticed the number of television commercials involving GPS devices during the holiday season. I find the one of a ribbon ...

Lessons From the Search for Steve Fossett

EnvironmentalChemistry .com posts a well-written article on the problems encountered by having volunteers using satellite and aerial imagery...

Privacy-related links

The Washington Post reports on an attempt by consumer groups to have the Federal Trade Commission implement a "Do Not Track" regis...

Is Where You Were Private!

Bruce Cahan forwarded me this article written by a colleague of his. It discusses a recent Massachusetts's case in which the governmen...

Spatial Law News

Spatial Law related articles: Article from a UK newspaper that suggests that satellite navigation devices may result in an increase chance f...

Where Did You Get That Picture of Me?

The case of Chang v. Virgin Mobile , filed in a Dallas, Texas court last week may have important implications for companies that collect ima...

WorldView-1

Congratulations to DigitalGlobe for the successful launch of WorldView -1 on September 18. Let's hope that checkout goes smoothly and t...

Very Spatial Law

For a number of reasons (busy with work, vacation, etc.) I did not make any posts in the month of August. However, I was interviewed by the ...

National Applications Office - Potential Impact on Spatial Technology Companies

The establishment of the National Applications Office (NAO) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is intended to increase the acc...

Use of Google Earth in legal documents

I recently saw an example of Google Earth imagery being used in a land lease. Although there are probably other such cases, this is the firs...

Spatial Privacy - What is it? What should it be?

I have been asked to give a talk on privacy and spatial technology in December to a group of lawyers interested in the legal aspects of remo...

Elbit Systems, Ltd, a shareholder in ImageSat International N.V., announced it that has been named in a lawsuit made by certain minority sha...

New York City's Plans to Collect Spatial Data

The New York Times reports on plans to place video cameras and license plate readers in Lower Manhattan. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/n...

Spatial Data And National Security - Time For A Dialogue

Brownian Emotion has one of the best discussions I have seen on the tension between national security and an open society with respect to Go...

But Do You Have A Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy With Your Cell Phone?

The recent decision by the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals (Warshak v. United States) that individuals have a reasonable expectation of pr...

What Is Spatial Law?

I am periodically asked to define Spatial Law. In my opinion, it is an emerging area of law focusing on the wide range of legal issues assoc...

MAPPS Lawsuit - a lawyer's perspective

As a lawyer with an interest in geospatial technology, I have felt for a while that I should comment on the MAPPS lawsuit. I have been reluc...

Privacy and Google Earth (cont'd)

Out-Law.com has a useful post on the potential privacy implications for Google Earth Street View in Europe. http://www.out-law.com/page-8116...

Patenting of Location Based Technology

Wired reports that Verizon is being sued for patent infringement by a company that claims to have a patent issued in 1999 for location-based...

Spatial Data - Privacy or Personally Identifiable Information

A recent article on CNET discusses some of the privacy concerns associated with Google's new street-level maps (and similar on-line serv...

Santa Clara - Court decision

The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara has recently released its ruling that the California Public Records Act (CPRA) requi...

County Halts Sale of Spatial Data on Security Grounds

FCW .com reports on Santa Clara's efforts to temporarily halt the commercial sale of GIS data for security concerns. http://www.fcw.com...

Licensing of Spatial Data - Unique Legal Issues

For those interested in the unique legal issues surrounding the licensing of spatial data, I recommend you check out the following discussio...

Liability for Spatial Data - Is There a Duty to Update?

A recent post on Brain Off ( http://brainoff.com/weblog/ ) describes how many of the major web-based map providers continue to show a major ...

Export Controls and Imagery

Recently Ogle Earth wrote that aid workers in Sudan were prohibited from accessing Google Earth. The reason, Ogle Earth learned from an emai...