Location Privacy - Will Congress Decide?

Cnet is reporting that a number of major technology companies have joined with liberal and conservative advocacy groups to convince Congres...

CTIA Issues Revised Privacy Best Practices For Location Services

The CTIA has revised its best practices and policies for protecting consumer privacy with respect to location-based services. The revised ...

Spatialist Workshop

I attended the “Workshop on legal aspects of geographic data and spatial data infrastructure” on March 19, 2010. It was held at the Interdis...

A recent New York Times article reports that cabbie drivers in New York City have overcharged passengers millions of dollars by using an im...

How to Build a Spatial Law and Policy Community?

Over the past two months, I have had occasion to consider the legal and policy issues associated with how spatial data is collected, used an...

Is the EU "short-sighted" when it comes to Street View?

Many European governments (and citizens) have expressed concerns about the privacy implications associated with Google's Street View - t...

Congressional Hearings on Location Privacy

There has already been a good deal reported about the recent Congressional hearings regarding the privacy implications associated with the c...