Re: Geolocation

>> Rigo Wenning wrote...
>>
>> Location is one of the most sensitive personal data. Just removing text
>> is no ok IMHO as people will look for hints on geolocation. That we do
>> not have provisions here is fine, but we then need non-normative text on
>>what to do.
>>
>> I think that fine grained geolocation use is incompatible with DNT:1
>> Relying on external laws and best practices is not appropriate. We need
>> a minimum protection here for those unregulated markets.
>>
>> So either use postal code, but not k-anonymity, at least not without
>> specifying a minimum area grid:
>> http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-1469.pdf
>>
>> -- Rigo

Bravo, Rigo...

...and please (everyone) don't forget that Yahoo's proposal ( via Brad Kulick, Shane Wiley, et al )
following the Sunnyvale Big Basin breakout ( with regards to replacing IP address(es) with
geo-location data as part of Yahoo's proposed de-identification regime ) has been discussed,
but not resolved.

Walter von Holst raised the concern in this post-Sunnyvale thread...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking/2013May/0058.html

As you try to recover from the recent document butchery and return to a viable
working state... these are the kind of things that shouldn't be allowed to
just 'fall off the table'.

Yours
Kevin Kiley <kevin.kiley@3pmobile.com>

CC: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>;
Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3c.org>;
Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>;
Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>;
Peter Cranstone; <peter.cranstone@3pmobile.com>
Liz Coker <liz.coker@3pmobile.com>

Received on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:43:25 UTC