Difference between revisions of "Smartphones (Location Services)"

Revision as of 17:30, 11 February 2016

Issue	Geolocation disclosure via Location Services software
Value	Privacy, Disclosure
Intent
Stakeholders	Users...
Status
Legal	Legal
Social	Questionable

• High stability and low entropy of human physical movement (detecting patterns)
• Issues: default settings (opt-out rather than opt-in), user ignorance, permissions and security, excessive and unnecessary privileges between OS and apps
  
  

Background and History

Development of capable technology:

• multilateration - location determination via cell phone signal triangulation; uses the variation in the reception of signal bounce-back to determine relative position^[1]
• When was the first smartphone manufactured with GPS facilities?^{[citation needed]}

Stakeholders

• Smartphone users
• Mobile phone carriers
• Software developers
• Advertising/marketing firms and the businesses they serve

Notable Cases

From popular culture, etc.

Legislation

To protect consumers/minimize risk/for convenience (Apple's "Find My Friends" app)

Policy

How major brands vary (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)

Ethical Implications

• In the workplace
• Personal life (family, friends)
  

External Links

See Also

References