Smartphones (Location Services)

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Location Services introduction/summary goes here:

• High stability and low entropy of human physical movement
• 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
• When was the first GPS chip in a smartphone?

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)

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