Employees' location data monitored with privacy safeguards. Employees’ location data monitored with privacy safeguards Giulio Coraggio on 20 November, 2014 - 1:34 pm in data protection, privacy It is possible to collect location data relating to employees through smartphone Apps if used in order to optimize the usage of resources and improve their management, coordination and timing provided that this practice complies with the stringent obligations imposed by the Italian privacy authority. The decision of the Italian privacy authority As covered in this post, the monitoring of employees under Italian law is subject to considerable regulatory restrictions not only under Italian data protection law, but also under the Italian Workers’ Bill that, among others, requires a consultation with trade unions when any monitoring system is put in place.
The Italian privacy authority took a very forward looking approach allowing the collection of location data through such smartphone App provided that: Developers must address the ethics of using location data | Technology. To collect butterflies, you need a net, pins and card. You catch the butterfly in the net, then you pin it to the card. Down in Silicon Valley, the nets are made, the butterflies stuck with red pins to cinema seats and coffee shops. By now, we’re so used to tracking location that it’s hard to image life without it.
Putting a pin in your particular position in place and time is almost a prerequisite of modern life. In one day a person could feasibly use Citymapper to chart a route to Canary Wharf, use Tinder to fish for a nearby banker, go with them to a restaurant and pin the instagrammed meal to the exact moment they finished the cherry cheesecake. Apps earn their keep by drawing lines from your phone to the world around you. Cities, like butterflies, are chaotic things, and from Sherlock Holmes to Batman we’ve created heroes who can take that mess and put it in order, show us that it makes sense. This uneasiness is becoming an all-too-familiar feeling. No. The Strange and Unmarked Road Ahead for Privacy. This blog has featured several posts on the Big Data and Internet of Things paradigms and the drastic effects they’re having on both innovation and creepiness (drink), but I was particularly interested in what General Motors CPO Jill Phillips, CIPP/US, CIPP/C, had to say about the privacy issues involved in the connected cars industry at last week’s Scary World of Nonstop Data Collection session at our DPI event in London, UK.
“Who would have thought a car would produce privacy issues like we’re seeing now?” She pointed out. So what are these privacy issues? Well, some are fairly well known. I’d say the most obvious concern is location privacy, followed pretty closely by nonstop collection of driving habits. Earlier this year, Future of Privacy Forum Policy Director Joshua Harris wrote about the Government Accountability Office report on connected cars. But Phillips, during last week’s conference, shed some additional light on the privacy obstacles facing connected cars.
Use it or Share it: Unlocking the Vast Wasteland of Fallow Spectrum by Michael Calabrese. New America Foundation - Open Technology InitiativeSeptember 25, 2011 Abstract: This paper suggests a general approach to authorizing and encouraging the utilization of otherwise wasted spectrum capacity: Use it or share it. The Federal Communication Commission and Obama Administration propose to meet exponential growth in mobile data demand by reallocating 500 MHz over 10 years.
But while policymakers are focused almost entirely on auctions, there is a looming limit to the amount of spectrum below 3.7 GHz that can be reallocated for exclusively licensed commercial use. In contrast, there is substantially more unused and underutilized spectrum in Federal and some other bands where it is either not practical to relocate incumbent users or where that will take many years. Number of Pages in PDF File: 35 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation Calabrese, Michael, Use it or Share it: Unlocking the Vast Wasteland of Fallow Spectrum (September 25, 2011). The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation by Marketa Trimble. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of LawApril 12, 2012 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 22, 2012 Abstract: Although the Internet is valued by many of its supporters particularly because it both defies and defeats physical borders, these important attributes are now being exposed to attempts by both governments and private entities to impose territorial limits through blocking or permitting access to content by Internet users based on their geographical location — a territorial partitioning of the Internet.
One of these attempts, for example, is the recent Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) proposal in the United States. This article analyzes the current legal status of cybertravel and explores how the law may treat cybertravel in the future. Number of Pages in PDF File: 91 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation Trimble, Marketa, The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation (April 12, 2012). Personal Jurisdiction, Internet Commerce, and Privacy: The Pervasive Legal Consequences of Modern Geolocation Technologies by Kevin King. Modern geolocation technologies allow Internet sites to automatically and accurately identify a user’s geographic location.
This capability - unavailable just a few years ago - has begun to revolutionize Internet commerce and communication by enabling content localization, customization, and access regulation on a scale previously thought to be impossible. Yet thus far, the law has reacted inadequately to these technologies, or in some cases, failed to react at all. While these failings are widespread, they are most glaring in three particular areas: personal jurisdiction, Internet commerce regulation, and privacy law. Personal jurisdiction doctrine has largely ignored the substantial role geolocation technologies play in the interaction between parties and a forum state.
The dominant test for determining whether a web site is subject to personal jurisdiction, set forth in Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Finally, there is the question of geolocation tools’ impact on privacy. GPS devices, geolocation data create privacy, security risks. In 2005, American Car Rental, doing business as Acme Rent-A-Car, used the Global Positioning System (GPS) devices in its rental cars to track the driving speeds of its customers.
Each time a vehicle's speed exceeded When you become a member, my editorial team will provide you with expert insight for creating and maintaining a manageable compliance infrastructure. From targeted tips to webcasts and discussion forums, we have you covered. 79 miles per hour for two continuous minutes or more, the car company charged the driver $150. Is this just a matter for the car rental industry? As applications and services for broadcasting a person's geographic location become more widespread, from Google Latitude and the GPS-enabled Garmin nuvifone to travel aggregation sites like TripIt , corporate policy questions and legislative action are bound to increase. For multinationals doing business in politically unstable locations, geolocation can endanger employees.
Another avenue to follow? Digital Lab » Geo-location. The future of privacy law in the era of Foursquare and check-ins. William Carleton: The United States vs. Maynard opinion (pdf) delivered last week by a federal appeals court is not an opinion about location-based services or online privacy. It's about whether the government can fairly obtain a criminal conviction using information gleaned over the course of a month from a GPS device surreptitiously placed in a suspect's vehicle. But in places the Court almost sounds like it could be contemplating information pieced together from check-ins on Foursquare or other location-based services: "[W]hat a person does repeatedly, what he does not do, and what he does ensemble . . . can each reveal more about a person than does any individual trip viewed in isolation.
Repeated visits to a church, a gym, a bar, or a bookie tell a story not told by any single visit, as does one‘s not visiting any of these places over the course of a month. Infographic of the Day: How Your Favorite Websites Spy on You | Co.Design. We all know, vaguely, that the websites we visit are tracking us with cookies and whatnot, silently scraping data on how and where we surf. But when you see the facts all laid out for you, it's gobsmacking.
The Wall Street Journal just published the results of an investigation they did into tracking habits at the Web's top 50 websites, and summed up the results in this superb infographic. Basically, the top half shows the Web's top 50 websites; the bottom half shows the tracking companies whose software can be found on those sites. When you click on one, it shows you the myriad linkages between them. Here, for example, are all of the tracking sites used by Dictionary.Reference.com: And here are all of the sites where Google has embedded its own tracking software: You can even click on each company, and look at a detailed profile of exactly what their privacy policies are, concerning user data: Now, you might think that all of the data is pretty anodyne. Still, is that a bad thing? Hong Kong’s Privacy Laws Slammed After Octopus Fiasco. By Liang Lusi & Sonya BryskineEpoch Times Staff Created: August 5, 2010 Last Updated: August 8, 2010 [ Octopus Holdings Pty.
CEO Resigns After Privacy Breach ] A major privacy breach has unfolded in Hong Kong, with revelations a popular cashless payment operator has made millions selling personal information of thousands of clients without their consent, but some observers are saying the fiasco is just the tip of the iceberg. Information surfaced last month that Octopus Holdings Pty. had sold two million personal data records to six insurance companies, without obtaining the users’ direct consent. According to the company’s CEO Prudence Chan, the sales brought HK$44 million in revenue, reported Bloomberg. The Octopus Cards, essentially a cashless rechargeable facility, were introduced in 1997 as an easy one-stop-shop option for payments. They are used by millions of Hong Kong residents to purchase everything from public transport tickets, to groceries, food at fast food stores and parking.
How much information are you really disclosing online? Almost certainly more than you think! The increase in use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter means that individuals are putting vast amounts of information about themselves online. However, the latest trends for geotagging photos and videos, and participating in social networking games which reveal the player's real world location means that individuals are disclosing information which could, in fact, put themselves and their homes at risk. Geotagging is the process of adding data to photos and videos regarding location and time, i.e. if you take a photograph and post it online, anyone viewing the photo will be able to see exactly where and when the photograph was taken.
Whilst some individuals are aware that they are revealing such information, others are not. For example, Apple's iphone has a default setting which automatically attaches this information to photographs and videos. Your Rights Online Story | GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal. Debates: Online privacy: Statements. The real reason location services aren’t so smart. For all the hype and attention location-based services are getting these days, only 1 in 25 Americans have ever tried one, and only 1 out of 100 use them weekly, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research.
What’s the problem? Some people wring their hands about privacy. Others suggest a generation gap is at play. But could the real problem be that we’re just not equipped for location services? We should be in location’s golden age. Facebook introduced its Places location-based check-in feature, just as Foursquare passed 3 million users with its unlock-your-city game. As the New York Times reported in its coverage of the survey, privacy remains a barrier to pulling more users into location-based services. Aside from privacy, another concern stems from the lack of a clearly articulated value proposition for most location services.
One big issue: Most location services require use of a smartphone with GPS and a powerful processor. Politicians call for 'geotagging' laws ahead of data summit. Location-based services find niche. Location Based Services - A Double-Edged Sword. It sure seems to me that everywhere I turn of late, I am being greeted with either a new service offering to enhance my life by providing my precise geo-location to a retailer or inserting my data into one of the many location-based services* available to collate my whereabouts and analyze my behavior. How about you? Are you appending your geo-coordinates or location to each social network update you are creating, be it on Twitter, Facebook, SkyRock, Sonico, Qzone or the like? If so, please read the FAQ within the service and understand how you can opt-in or opt-out. This applies to your devices as well; understand how to turn on and off the geo-location of your device.
These actions will ensure you are knowingly opting into the service as opposed to being defaulted into having your location shared broadly. I see the use of location-based services as both reasonable and worrisome. Example: An individual embarks on travel using a limited-access road. The future of privacy law in the era of Foursquare and check-ins. Location and Privacy - What is the New "Reasonable" Location has arrived – and it is raising all sorts of privacy concerns.
In the past few months alone: 1. Facebook launches “Places” and within hours the media and privacy begin criticizing the service as failing to adequately, address privacy concerns. 2. Congressman Bobby Rush introduces legislation that would for the first time regulate on a broad scale the collection, use and distribution of location information on individuals in the U.S.. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Each of these are examples of how society is grappling with how to deal with the impact of different technologies on the concept of privacy from a location standpoint. I do not know how all this will play out. Location technology has the potential to save lives, provide valuable commercial and governmental services and make our planet a better and more sustainable place to live. Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet's Missing Identity Layer.
Last week I gave a presentation at PII 2010 in Seattle where I tried to summarize what I had learned from my recent work on WiFi location services and identity. During the question period an audience member asked me to return to the slide where I recounted how I had first encountered Apple's new location tracking policy: My questioner was clearly a bit irritated with me, Didn't I realize that the “unique device identifier” was just a GUID – a purely random number? It wasn't a MAC address. It was not personally identifying. The question really perplexed me, since I had just shown a slide demonstrating how if you go to this well-known web site (for example) and enter a location you find out who lives there (I used myself as an example, and by the way, “whitepages” releases this information even though I have had an unlisted number…). My questioner then asked, “Is your problem that Apple's privacy policy is so clear?
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