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		<title>New UN Sustainable Development Report Promotes Global Indicators</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high-level United Nations panel on global sustainability has just come out with a report outlining a far-reaching sustainable development strategy. Titled &#8220;Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing&#8220;, the report is being described as &#8220;a new blueprint for sustainable development and low-carbon prosperity.&#8221; Central to the report is a call for a science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FBI Wants a Geospatial Social Media Monitoring App</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI today released a public document that outlines a social media application that would harvest information from social networking sites and then map and analyze that information. The call is for a &#8220;geospatial alert and analysis mapping application&#8221; to search publicly available social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for national security threats. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GeoSUR Geospatial Data Sharing Site Provides Case Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[spatial data]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GeoSur, the open access geospatial data sharing site for Latin America and the Caribbean, was discussed as a case model at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi last week. The site has proved a useful tool for GIS users in the region that want to perform spatial analysis, and it has also assisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Use of Drones Domestically Lead to Privacy Law Revamps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[earth observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy/security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensor web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of the drone as a catalyst for revamping the privacy laws in the United States is the topic of a recent article written by M. Ryan Calo, director for privacy and robotics at the Center for Internet &#38; Society, in the Stanford Law Review. The article takes on the subject of our eroded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioWeatherMap Aims to Uncover Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Microbial Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensor web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BioWeatherMap initiative looks to uncover insight into the geographic and temporal distribution of microbial life through an distributed and volunteer environmental sensing effort. The intent is to gather environmental samples from around the world that will be DNA sequence for ongoing discovery and surveillance. This effort teamed with Autodesk to explore the visualization aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detailed Maps of Addict Behavior Leads to New Treatments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, NPR highlighted the work of researchers in Baltimore that are following addicts and their behavior very closely to track movement as well as the behaviors that coincide with their drug use. Researchers in the methadone program that serves addicts are studying specifically what makes addicts relapse with a smartphone program that requires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Prosecutors Go After Google Street View Developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors in South Korea have been after Google for privacy infringements from Street View mapping. A police probe found that in addition to collecting 360-degree images, the camera-equipped vehicles also collected serial numbers on mobile devices, mobile messages, e-mails, passwords, and even credit card details. After getting nowhere by interrogating local Google officials, the prosecutors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Geodemographic Analysis Equal to Racial Profiling?</title>
		<link>http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/is-geodemographic-analysis-equal-to-racial-profiling.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/is-geodemographic-analysis-equal-to-racial-profiling.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union accused the FBI today of racial profiling because of their use of U.S. census data and demographic data to map crimes and track individuals. The group raises concerns that the FBI is illegally targeting Americans based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion and political activities that are protected under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye NBII: Budget Cuts Spell the End of the National Biological Information Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/goodbye-nbii-budget-cuts-spell-the-end-of-the-national-biological-information-infrastructure.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated as of Jan. 15, 2012, due to a $3.8 million budget cut. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within the website terminated and no longer available. The site&#8217;s blog has already been terminated as of last week, and will be removed completely as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues of Liability Unclear for Sensor and Sensor Platform Providers</title>
		<link>http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/issues-of-liability-unclear-for-sensor-and-sensor-platform-providers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/issues-of-liability-unclear-for-sensor-and-sensor-platform-providers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental monitoring]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sensor web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[smart grid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Pomfret&#8217;s discussion of law and liability as it relates to the smart grid yesterday (see this post) still has me thinking. There are two areas that I think still need further exploration relating to the granularity of in-home sensor readings, and the liability of sensor platform providers for sensors that they may host. In [...]]]></description>
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