Archive for the 'Locational privacy' Category
San Francisco’s Wi-Fi Plan on November Ballot Proposal
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Even while Earthlink seems to be stepping away from municipal wi-fi projects, San Francisco is introducing a non-binding ballot proposal to gauge citizen interest in blanketing the city in Google/Earthlink hotspots.
Nathan Weinberg dug up a copy of the ballot initiative, which includes requirements for privacy protections (emphasis added):
Declaration of policy supporting a wireless broadband network […]
Tracking Devices on Milwaukee Police Cars Blocked
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006GPS systems installed on Milwaukee Police squad cars to help dispatchers track officers’ whereabouts have recently been found covered with foil, rendering them useless and the cars invisible to monitoring. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
A Milwaukee police captain was walking through the District 7 garage over the summer when he noticed something wasn’t right about […]
In Love with Geotagging
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006The New York Times recently extolled the virtues of using GPS in digital cameras and camera cellphones to “geotag” photos with the location at which they were taken:
…advocates of geotagging, like Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr, contend that linking pictures to maps can lend a new dimension to photography. For one […]
Intel Drafts Privacy License for Mobile Device Software
Thursday, November 9th, 2006On the heels of Microsoft’s recent release of privacy guidelines for software developers, here’s an excellent example of another company working with privacy scholars to try to protect end-user privacy when using location-based mobile devices. From ComptuerWorld:
Intel Drafts Privacy License for Mobile Device Software
Intel Corp. has attached a privacy license to its new location-aware software […]
Spatial Data Privacy and the Law
Thursday, July 20th, 2006The geospatial technology magazine, Directions Magazine, has an interesting article noting the growing privacy concerns facing the spatial technology industry, and the lack of legal guidance as to how the industry should protect a person’s personally identifiable spatial (PIS) data. Their conclusion:
Although there is little direct guidance as to how spatial companies should deal with […]




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