Privacy Challenges for Location Aware Technologies [chapter]

Carl Adams, Vasilios Katos
IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing  
Location aware capabilities can supply context and location sensitive information and support enabling users to be contactable and locatable within a wider mobile environment. These location awareness attributes can also be used to monitor user activities and movement through space and time. This paper explores location aware technologies and the resulting changing privacy and security landscapes for such mobile systems. The paper argues that the real challenge of meeting privacy obligations
more » ... l be how to limit the joiningup or collaboration between the different monitoring technologies. However, this joining up capability is the very nature of information systems.
doi:10.1007/0-387-31166-1_22 dblp:conf/mobis/AdamsK05 fatcat:k6mwhpwq4jcv5nvwosn7tmyz5y