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Privacy No More: the Down Side of Location
posted by Satri
on Friday January 20, @04:23PM
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from the I-know-everything-about-you dept.
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dct writes "Vector One has this comment on Location Intelligence effect on privacy. In this world of location excitement, it is important to make a pause and ponder about the effects of our work. From the article: "In as much as many people seek to identify objects and people, where is the limit? Why can’t an individual ‘protect’ themselves from unwanted electronic invasion?""
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The Map Room links to a Guardian Unlimited article on GPS and Privacy. From the article: ""People are very willing to give up their privacy," he says. "You just have to give them a good reason to do so. If you can assist a person in their everyday life, they will be more than happy to divulge their current location." [...] Whether we're using our mobile phone, wandering around on social networking sites, or just going about our daily lives, we want to have agreed to any tracking that takes place."
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The Spatial Law blog discuss and links to an excellent (and very long) article named location and privacy issues. From the article: "However, the counter argument is that there is a tension between the two fundamental values of privacy on the one hand and the public’s right to know on the other. [...] GIS has the power to integrate diverse information from multiple sources. Some of the data are of a personal nature where individuals may be identified or identifiable while others are of a spatial nature that may be used to locate individuals through geocoded data such as a home address. The privacy threat is from the new inferences that may be made by correlating geographic information with personal information." From the SL blog: "Second, Dr Cho notes that "geospatial technology is inherently visual but this strength also exposes a major weakness in that it may produce map interences that may be both statistically and ecologically fallacious.""
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