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You are where you’ve been |
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Technological threats to your location privacy |
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Authorised By :: School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems
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Chris Rizos is a graduate of The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia; obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in Satellite Geodesy in 1980. Chris is currently the Head of the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems at UNSW. Chris has been researching the technology and applications of GPS since 1985, and established over a decade ago the Satellite Navigation and Positioning group at UNSW, today the largest and best known academic GPS and wireless location technology R&D laboratory in Australia. Chris is the Vice President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), a member of the Governing Board of the International GNSS Service, and an associate editor of the Journal for Location Based Services. Chris is a Fellow of the IAG and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Navigation. Chris was recently named amongst the "Fifty Leaders to Watch in GNSS in 2008" by the magazine GPS World. |
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Location Based Services and Issues Such as Privacy
Abstract Personal privacy has always been an emotional topic, and privacy advocates point to its steady erosion in the Information Age as the degree of electronic transactions, CCTV surveillance, e-ticketing, online profiling, use of web 2.0 technologies, and capture of personal information on databases grows. However, more recently concerns about Location Privacy have increased as technology appears to fuel a suspicion that “Big Brother is watching”. In particular two types of technologies are giving rise to most concern, and both extensively use geospatial tools. Both also imply that there is little or no control that an individual may have over the use of the information. One is images of people, objects and structures from digital imaging sensors on satellite, airborne or even ground-based platforms. These are increasingly appearing on websites, and can be seen as an “invasion of privacy” as well as a “threat to security”, as exemplified by developments of Google Earth and the like. The other is the tracking of people or vehicles using GPS and similar position determination technologies. This presentation will review these technologies and pose some questions relating to Personal Location Privacy. |
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Chris Rizos
Professor & Head of School School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems The University of New South Wales |