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The black letter law discussed in this episode is:
Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-98/pdf/STATUTE-98-Pg3055.pdf
Amended 2004
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/PL108-492.pdf

National Space Council meeting in FL
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/second-national-space-council-meeting-focuses-on-regulatory-reform-china/

Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/

Land Remote Sensing Policy (Part of National Commercial Space Program Act)
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/commercial/15uscchap82.html

Strava collecting geo location data on military bases
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/

GPS Selective Availability
https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/

Union of Concerned Scientists estimate of satellites
https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database#.WtiuOC7waUk
There are differing estimates of the number of satellites in space
https://www.pixalytics.com/sats-orbiting-earth-2017/

UN Principles of Remote Sensing
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/41/a41r065.htm

National and Commercial Space Programs (Title 51)
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title51&edition=prelim

Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Systems 15 CFR 960
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/15/part-960

United States v. Jones 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/10-1259

Robert Draper article on surveillance and migration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/surveillance-watching-you/

Kevin Pomfret is a Partner at Williams Mullen
http://www.williamsmullen.com/people/kevin-d-pomfret