The Spatial Law and Policy Update (November 2, 2011)

Raising Awareness of Where Geospatial Technology Is Taking the Law

Privacy

Right of Publicity Suit Against Facebook Dismissed (Inside Privacy)

Big data mining, fairness and privacy (KDnuggets)

AT&T Plans To Sell Health-Tracking Clothing (Forbes)

W3i Suggests iOS Developers Use MAC Address As UDID Replacement (TechCrunch)

Developer alert: Should you use MAC addresses instead of UDIDs? (Privacy Choice)

Update of Key Transparency Law Would Better Protect Americans' Privacy (OMB Watch)

Scary Stalker Husband In The Legal Clear To Track Wife's Car (Forbes)

AccuWeather App Stalks HTC Users (Directions Magazine)

Intellectual Property

Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs (AVC)

Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet (Gigaom)

National Security/Homeland Security

Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines (Associated Press)

Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian: Privacy invasion shouldn’t be ‘lawful’ (National Post)

UK Cops Using Fake Mobile Phone Tower to Intercept Calls, Shut Off Phones (Wired)

Hack at Japan’s mapping agency raises concerns about a sustained attack (Computer Weekly)

Transparency Report (Google)

Pakistan captures security data from Indian chopper (Geospatial World)

Satellite Navigation Systems

Various Articles about LightSquared (GISUser)

Spatial Data Infrastructures

SOCIAL MEDIA TO HAVE INDIRECT INFLUENCE ON SDI (FutureGov)

Delhi to implement geospatial law from November 15 (Geospatial World)

UAV's

Homeland Security adding 3 drone aircraft despite lack of pilots (Los Angeles Times)

Miscellaneous

Support access to geographic information systems technology and training in local governments (The White House)

India formally proposes government takeover of Internet (dot-nxt)

Prince of Wales: a private individual's effective veto over public legislation (The Guardian)

When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps (Matthew Ericson)