[Board] Privacy

[Carl Reed]

All -

Back around 2000 I worked a privacy manifesto for location services (now 
used in the Open Mobile Alliance). Document is attached.

I would also look to all of the privacy standards work being done in the 
IETF. Many of the questions raised by Jachym have been raised and discussed 
in the GeoPriv Working Group of the IETF. For example, location obfuscation, 
location dereferencing, and so forth. Approaches are documented in a variety 
of internet RFCs.

Cheers

Carl


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From: Seven (aka Arnulf)
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:29 PM
To: Jáchym Čepický
Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Privacy

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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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Exploring Space, Time and Mind
http://arnulf.us
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