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As Police Drones Take Off, Washington State Pushes Back - NPR All Things Considered
Sunday, March 3rd 2013
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The phrase "unmanned drones" typically conjures images of places like Afghanistan. But the Federal Aviation Administration says it wants to start testing the civilian use of aerial drones here in the U.S. and has already issued special permits to a few police departments interested in trying them out.
But after a raucous Seattle City Council hearing earlier this month, the mayor killed the drone program.
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/22/172696814/as-police-drones-take-off-washington-state-pushes-back
Privacy and Personal Geographic Data
At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with the help of two of his students on the topic of personal geographic data and privacy. Geoff Zeiss provides a recap.
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