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Re: Geofencing and privacy

From: Rob van Eijk <rob@blaeu.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:05 +0200
To: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org>
Cc: Ambarish S Natu <ambarish.natu@gmail.com>, public-privacy@w3.org
Message-ID: <dc9811ca07e7f5109a29b3e22a13d6bc@xs4all.nl>

Joe, it is worth buying and reading the two documents. The definition 
for PII is based on the European perspective on identifiability.

Joseph Lorenzo Hall schreef op 2015-06-25 15:48:
> Is that a publicly-available ISO standard? If not, we're likely to
> ignore it if we have to pay to look at it. best, Joe
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ambarish S Natu
> <ambarish.natu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Please excuse me, if i am being a bit naive here in my comments. 
>> ISO/IEC
>> 29100 and ISO/IEC 29101 specify a privacy framework/architecture for 
>> ICT
>> systems, which I believe encompasses the work of the W3. Has W3 
>> thought
>> about addressing these aspects of PII as their design principles. I do 
>> not
>> see a normative reference to this work done by ISO/IEC.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Ambarish
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:48 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> > On Jun 24, 2015, at 7:35 , Christine Runnegar <runnegar@isoc.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi all.
>>> >
>>> > The First Public Working Draft of Geofencing API has been published by
>>> > the Geolocation WG:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-geofencing-20150604/
>>> >
>>> > You will see that there is still work to be done on the privacy and
>>> > security considerations section.
>>> >
>>> > So, here is an opportunity to provide some early guidance.
>>> 
>>> I don’t want to sound excessively negative, but I have a hard time
>>> believing you can design any aspect of this without solving how you 
>>> are
>>> going to handle the very hard privacy considerations.  The mechanics 
>>> of the
>>> design seem a lot simpler, and are likely to be heavily affected.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Singer
>>> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Ambarish S Natu
>> www.angelfire.com/ak4/ambarishnatuatunsw/1_page.htm
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