The Spatial Law and Policy Update

The Spatial Law and Policy Update:

Raising Awareness of Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law 

Privacy

It Is Not Safe to Break Up in a Burger King Any More (Gawker)

AccuWeather App Stalks HTC Users (Directions Magazine)

Sens. Kerry and McCain press agencies for final privacy reports (The Hill)

The Competitive Privacy Marketplace: Regulators Competing on Privacy, Not the Companies (Huffington Post)

Congress Should Resolve Location Tracking Questions (Huffington Post)

City Put Municipal Judge Under Surveillance in Residency Probe, Found She Rarely Spent Night at Home (ABA Journal)

Intellectual Property

Anti-Piracy Legislation Targets Copyrights, While Critics Say It's a Trap to Hurt Facebook, YouTube (Fox News)

SOPA? E-PARASITE Act? Whatever It’s Called, Here’s A Primer on the Latest in Protect IP (Corporate Law Report)

Who Owns Your LinkedIn Contacts? (Forbes)

National Security/Law Enforcement

Reflections on the Oral Argument in United States v. Jones, the GPS Fourth Amendment Case (Volokh)

CIA tracks overseas revolts via Tweet, Facebook (Mercury News)

Judges Weigh Phone Tracking (Wall Street Journal)

Distorted map: Chinese ambassador tells Indian journalist to shut up (The Times of India)

Syrian Surveillance Project May Get Stopped as Italy Firm Weighs Options (Bloomberg)

Iranian Police Seizing Dissidents Get Aid Of Western Companies (Bloomberg)

Chinese govt targets social media with plan to curb “harmful information” online (The Next Web)

Facebook's Swedish data centre will be subject to Snoop Law It's the law, innit... bitch (The Register)

Another attempt at export control reform legislation (Space Politics)

NYC Testing System to Notify Victims of Domestic Abuse of Geofence Breach (Directions Magazine)

Data Quality/Liability

GIS Data: A Look at Accuracy, Precision, and Types of Errors (GIS Lounge)

UAVs

U.S. Tightens Drone Rules (Wall Street Journal)

Satellite Navigation

GPS group urges FCC to ban LightSquared from upper half of spectrum (The Hill)

Spatial Data Infrastructures

Another consideration for Open Data (The Guardian)

Miscellaneous

OGC’s Mark Reichardt Presents at UN-GGIM Forum (SDI Magazine)

Tech giants to feds: We need free trade for data (GIGaom)

Promoting Cross‐Border Data Flows Priorities for the Business Community (NFTC)

EARSC Position Paper on Data Policy (EARSC)

HIGH LEVEL FORUM ON GLOBAL GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SUMMARY OF THE CHAIRPERSON (GGIM)

With an App, Your Next Date Could Be Just Around the Corner (New York Times)