- From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:08:04 -0700
- To: "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
hello. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/business/media/11target.html might be something of interest for this activity. generally, awareness about privacy issues is something that will grow, in particular with the growth of mobile users and location-based services, and with the tremendous value of having access to the location data of users. while the average U.S. attitude may be that of the man quoted in the article ("i didn't know they're doing it, but i'm not surprised."), it also is important to realize that this is a U.S. centric attitude; privacy historically is not regarded as essential as it is for example in europe. europe may actually outlaw some of the more excessive forms of data collection and mining. google's street view problems in europe are an interesting example for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View#Privacy_issues cheers, dret.
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