Mind your step! : How profiling location reveals your identity - and how you prepare for it
Location-based services (LBS) are services that position your mobile phone to provide some context-based service for you. Some of these services – called ‘location tracking’ applications - need frequent updates of the current position to decide whether a service should be initiated. Thus, internet-based systems will continuously collect and process the location in relationship to a personal context of an identified customer. This paper will present the concept of location as part of a person’s identity. I will conceptualize location in information systems and relate it to concepts like privacy, geographical information systems and surveillance. The talk will present how the knowledge of a person's private life and identity can be enhanced with data mining technologies on location profiles and movement patterns. Finally, some first concepts about protecting location information.
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| Author: | Lothar Fritsch |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24054 |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 19.01.2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Contributing Corporation: | European Union IST FIDIS Research Project |
| Tag: | Datenschutz; Kontrolle; Ortsbasierte Dienste; Privatsphärenschutztechnik Location-based services; control; privacy enhancing technology |
| SWD-Keyword: | Datenschutz ; Datenschutz / Kontrolle ; Identität; Ortung ; Privatsphäre |
| HeBIS PPN: | 190637854 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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