I recently stumbled across this post from a Kansas law enforcement lobbyist, originally posted in January 2014. It purports to describe “a number” of 911 calls in Park City about “suspicious persons” who turned out to be playing the augmented reality game Ingress. The article also cites one of my blog posts as an example[…]
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Bill Switzer, head of CopTrax, a division of Stalker Radar in Georgia. CopTrax is making a name for itself as the first company to offer a software solution to law enforcement officers based on Google Glass. On Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, the Byron Police Department in Georgia–a loyal Stalker[…]
This article was written by Lee Swales, a Lecturer at Varsity College and Consultant to V O’Connell Inc. Attorneys in Durban, South Africa. He authors the Social Media and Regulatory Law Blog. Social media and technology have cast a wide net; service of legal process via non-traditional means, such as Facebook, is now permissible in many[…]
For years now, in blog posts and in speeches across the country, I have been warning about the real-world implications of augmented reality games. Primarily, I’ve focused on the risk of getting physically hurt while playing these virtual games. But I’ve also shared the story of an incident that happened only a few miles from[…]
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