[Board] Privacy

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 22.10.2013 20:10, Jáchym Čepický wrote:
>> In my experience location is not well defined in any legislation anyway.
>> What level of location precision requires the consent of the user?
>> Country level, county, district, city, quarter, street, floor,
>> apartment? Location in WGS 84 degrees with what decimal precision? What
>> about our web server logs? In some cases the user IP can be traced to a
>> home location, in association with the Wiki account of the user even
>> this becomes private data. Ho do we make sure that no "unauthorized"
>> person can access this data? Nil return.
>>
>> These questions are unanswered but should be addressed by someone.
>> Regarding location this might even be a business model for OSGeo.
>> Besides OSGeo it might be interesting for the OGC, ISO and it certainly
>> is for OpenStreetMap. Folks like Google/Bing/Here have money to spend on
>> this, making this not only a painful volunteer thing but a potentially
>> sponsored endeavor, probably even pretty easily. Anybody interested?
>>
> 
> Not sure, if I understand your point - what could be business model for
> OSGeo here?

Jachym,
I was suggesting that OSGeo get some funding from the big geo folks to
develop a location privacy policy that is not legalese but rooted in
geospatial sense. A high level appreciation of the privacy aspects of
location.

Cheers,
Arnulf

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