Category Archives: Geolocation
Packet Headers and Privacy
Juniper’s proposal may see ISPs leverage their existing customer service information to modify customers’ data traffic for the purposes of enhancing the geographic relevance of online advertising. This poses a severe problem for citizens’ locational and communicative privacy. Continue reading
Apple and Locational Data Sharing
It seems that the hint of advertising dollars has led Apple to set aside privacy principles in the hopes of making a quick buck at the expense of citizens’ privacy. While not necessarily surprising or even disappointing (Apple is, after all, a publicly traded company that is purely motivated to return profits to their shareholders) the high-profile company’s bait and switch on its privacy principles will hopefully attract regulatory attention and establish more ‘guidance’ so that other companies are less willing to sell out customers on behalf of the balance sheet. Continue reading
Privacy Norms in the Bio-Digital World
What is the penalty when public information is situated outside of its original format and mashed-up with other data sources? What happens when we correlate data to ‘map’ it? Continue reading
Facial Blurring = Securing Individual Privacy?
There is really a certain ‘ick’ reaction when some public images are captured and then widely disseminated online (such as the above Google Streetview picture) – there is an expectation that certain contextual, culturally specific privacy norms carry over into ‘public’ spaces…companies that want to avoid doing evil would be well served to realize privacy as a cultural, rather than an engineering, issue. Continue reading
