Red Herring reports that Verizon Wireless is launching a GPS tracking service called "Verizon Chaperone" so parents can monitor the location of their children via their cellphones. Along with the ability of parents to log into a website to determine…
Tag: Privacy in Public
How to triangulate location data, privacy and profit
OUT-LAW.COM posts about an opinion on privacy compliance from the EU's Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection. The issue at hand is the growing ability to triangulate location data with the plethora of data services/devices we use in everyday…
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Universal Automobile Surveillance in the UK
Bruce Schneier points us to the latest steps the UK is taking to embark on wholesale surveillance of citizens driving on the public roads: Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles…
More Driving Big Brother
Declan McCullagh at CNET offers his commentary on the latest example of "driving big brother": GPS tracking of vehicles in support of mileage-based road user fees. From his commentary:In principle, the idea of what bureaucrats like to call "value pricing"…
MIT Tracks Students’ Movements Via Network Connections
MIT seems to like to experiment with ways of tracking its students. LawMeme reports that MIT has granted students access to information about its network traffic perviously available only to network administrator's. Students can now log in and view the…
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Missouri: State Spies on Drivers Through Cell Phones
The state of Missouri has begun a program to track individual movements on highways through cell phones:The Missouri Department of Transportation will spend $3 million annually on a program to monitor the movements of individuals on highways via their cell…
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Public Surveillence via Cellphone
Bruce Schneier points to this Wired piece on an MIT student's research project where he handed out specially-equipped cellphones as a way to document the lives of students and employees of MIT. From the article: Eagle's Reality Mining project logged…
Ubiquitous Cameras & Privacy in Public
My earlier discussion of privacy as Contextual Integrity builds on the problem of "privacy in public and how public surveillance has become a part of a modern citizen’s everyday life. This AP article drives home just how ubiquitous surveillance cameras…
Privacy as Contextual Integrity (Part 1): Problem of Privacy in Public
Over recent weeks, I have commented on numerous articles about privacy threats involving vehicles and highway travel. I am completing a major research project on this topic, arguing that the introduction of new technologies into the context of highway travel…
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Privacy and Vehicle Travel
Privacy.org points to a Boston.com article that discusses recent privacy concerns about the upcoming implementation of E-ZPass (electronic toll collection) in New Hampshire:The E-ZPass system that will soon make it easier to pay tolls in New Hampshire will make it…
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