Location
The ubiquity of increasingly high-powered mobile devices has already spawned the Internet’s first generation of location-based services and applications. As the accuracy of location data improves and the expense of calculating and obtaining it declines, location may well come to pervade the online experience. While the increasing availability of location information paves the way for exciting new applications and services, the increasingly easy availability of location information raises several different kinds of privacy concerns. Ensuring that location information is transmitted and accessed in a privacy-protective way is essential to the future success of location-based applications and services.
CDT has taken a lead in raising awareness about, and promoting solutions for, the privacy concerns implicated by a location-enabled Internet, testifying before Congress on the topic and working within the IETF and proposing protocols for binding digital location information and granular privacy rules that govern that information.
Follow the latest CDT news with Press Releases, Events, and where we've been featured around the Internet.
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John Morris will testify at a hearing entitled "The Collection and Use of Location Information for Commercial Purposes" Event: John Morris will testify before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and... |
2/24/2010 | |
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Dawn of the Location-Enabled Web Statement: CDT today released a Policy Post outlining issues related to the newly emerging location-enabled... |
7/6/2009 | |
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CDT: Location-Enabled Web Deserves Closer Scrutiny, Better User Control Press Release: Washington--Apple's release of the new iPhone 3.0 software to some 40 million users ushers... |
6/19/2009 | |
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Alissa Cooper and John Morris, Binding Privacy Rules to Location on the Web. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Location and the Web (Boston, Massachusetts, April 04 -04, 2009). LOCWEB '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1-4 Commentary: Alissa Cooper and John Morris, Binding Privacy Rules to Location on the Web. In Proceedings of the... |
4/20/2009 | |
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FCC Must Protect Innovation, Privacy in e911 Rulemaking Statement: CDT, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Sun Microsystems this week urged the Federal... |
8/22/2007 |
Policy Posts deliver in-depth analysis of current issues affecting the Internet. These documents are a leading resource for policy makers, the press, industry representatives, students, and others interested in legal and policy issues affecting the Internet.
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| CDT Testifies on Location Privacy | 1) CDT Testifies on Location Privacy 2) Location Information is... | 3/2/2010 | |
| The Role of Privacy by Design in Protecting Consumer Privacy | 1) What is Privacy by Design? 2) Privacy Enhancing Technologies or Privacy by Design? 3) Privacy by... | 1/28/2010 | |
| The Dawn of the Location Enabled Web | 1) Location Privacy 2) The Dawn of the Location-Enabled Web 3) Location-Aware Firefox 1) Location... | 7/6/2009 |
Find all our latest testimony, papers, and other reports here.
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The Privacy Implications of Commercial Location-Based Services Testimony: The widespread consumer adoption of increasingly high-powered mobile devices has already spawned... |
John Morris | 2/24/2010 | |
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GEOPRIV: Creating Building Blocks for Managing Location Privacy on the Internet Paper: Technical standards bodies that reuse the IETF’s work sometimes describe its method as... |
Alissa Cooper | 9/1/2009 | |
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An Architecture for Location and Location Privacy in Internet Applications Paper: This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP... |
4/29/2009 | ||
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Binding Privacy Rules to Location on the Web Paper: As a tool for mitigating the potential privacy risks of gathering and transmitting location... |
4/20/2009 | ||
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Who’s Watching You Now? Paper: Location-based applications and services are emerging at a pace that's likely to accelerate... |
John Morris | 1/1/2007 |