Abstract
The chapter presents an overview of the legal issues pertaining to privacy and high resolution imaging obtained from Earth observation (EO) platforms. There is a great deal of uncertainty about the parameters and boundaries of privacy law generated by images from EO satellites. 'EO' refers specifically to the active monitoring of the Earth from an orbit in space using satellites. Von der Dunk raises several important issues, including territorial jurisdiction and space activities, space law responsibility and state liability, and looming practical problems. The literature identifies the legal issues including liability, the regulation of private entities, international regulation and national customary law, intellectual property rights (IPR) and jurisdiction. The need for a legal framework to govern EO and privacy has been hastened by the rapid developments in the application of geospatial technology. The protection of privacy in the European civil law tradition is marked by differences in approach and philosophy. Keywords:Earth observation (EO) satellites; legal issues; privacy law; space law
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