The Spatial Law and Policy Update

Privacy

Data Protection Regulation and the Politics of Interoperability (EFF)

National Security/Law Enforcement

Government divided over phone data law (The Local)

Governmental Tracking of Cell Phones and Vehicles: The Confluence of Privacy, Technology, and Law (Congressional Research Service)

Police using social media to stop drivers from warning others about RIDE locations (680 News)

Intellectual Property

SOPA Can Impact Companies Who Think They're Immune (Techdirt)

Who Owns Your Followers? Time To Revise Your Social Media Policy (ReadWrite Enterprise)

Data Quality

U.S., Pakistan, at odds over airstrike report (CNN)

Intelligent Transportation System

Eyes in the sky: New poles along Spaulding, I-95 provide real-time solutions to host of problems (Fosters.com)

UAVs

The Drones Are Coming (CDT)

Activists using drones against Japanese whalers (CNN)

NASA Sees Drones Flying In U.S. Airspace (Information Week)

Spatial Data Infrastructure

Publishing Public Sector Information (Australian Government Web Guide)

GNSS

Beijing Launches Its Own GPS Rival (The Wall Street Journal)

LightSquared: GPS not entitled to special protection (The Hill)

Miscellaneous

Court asks social media websites to scrap derogatory content by Feb 6 (Media Newsline)

Scud watching from geostationary earth orbit (CyberSpaceWar.com)