GeoAI and the Law Newsletter
Tracking developments in AI laws and regulations for geospatial professionals — what changed, what it means for your work, and what to do about it.
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Free, roughly every two weeks. Legal and policy developments that affect geospatial data and GeoAI, written for practitioners rather than lawyers.
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Three Sections, Every Issue
Short enough to read over coffee, specific enough to act on.
What You'll Learn This Week
A short list of the issue's takeaways, so you can tell in seconds whether it affects your projects.
What's New
Recent legal and regulatory developments in brief, each one citing the source so you can go to the original.
Deep Dive
One development examined in depth — what it changes for geospatial work, and the practical steps to take now.
What the Deep Dives Cover
Every issue examines one development in detail. Here are the three most recent.
Licensing in the Age of GeoAI: Why GeoAI Breaks the Inherited Legal Framework
Read the IssueNavigating State Laws and the EU AI Act in Developing a GeoAI Governance Program
Read the IssueNebraska's New Farm Data Law: What Remote Sensing Companies Need to Know
Read the IssueLegal and Policy Developments,
Translated for Geospatial Work
Geospatial data now sits inside AI systems that regulators, courts and procurement officers are only beginning to address. State privacy statutes, the EU AI Act, farm data laws, export rules and licensing terms all land on the same teams — usually without warning and usually mid-project.
This newsletter follows those developments and explains what each one means for the people collecting, licensing and analyzing geospatial information. It is written for geospatial professionals, not for lawyers.
- Free — every issue, no paywall
- Published roughly every two weeks
- From the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy · Edited by Kevin D. Pomfret
Kevin D. Pomfret
Kevin D. Pomfret is a partner at the Pierson Ferdinand law firm and is recognized as a leading authority on the legal and policy issues that affect the collection, use, storage, and distribution of geospatial information — government and commercial contracts, privacy and data protection, data quality, liability, and regulatory matters.
He has provided testimony to the U.S. Congress on remote sensing issues and presented at several United Nations committee meetings. He is a former member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing and of the UN-GGIM Working Group on Policy and Legal Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management, and is an adjunct professor on geospatial law and ethics who conducts training and workshops across the globe.
GeoAI and the Law is not legal advice. Readers should consult a qualified lawyer on legal matters associated with GeoAI.