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Article: Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices
Title | Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices |
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Authors | |
Keywords | ePrivacy Geo-location technology Location privacy Mobile services Smartphones Surreptitious surveillance |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Elsevier Advanced Technology. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/422550/description?navopenmenu=-2 |
Citation | Computer Law & Security Review, 2014, v. 30 n. 1, p. 41-54 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Adding to the current debate, this article focuses on the personal data and privacy challenges posed by private industry's use of smart mobile devices that provide location-based services to users and consumers. Directly relevant to personal data protection are valid concerns about the collection, retention, use and accessibility of this kind of personal data, in relation to which a key issue is whether valid consent is ever obtained from users. While it is indisputable that geo-location technologies serve important functions, their potential use for surveillance and invasion of privacy should not be overlooked. Thus, in this study we address the question of how a legal regime can ensure the proper functionality of geo-location technologies while preventing their misuse. In doing so, we examine whether information gathered from geo-location technologies is a form of personal data, how it is related to privacy and whether current legal protection mechanisms are adequate. We argue that geo-location data are indeed a type of personal data. Not only is this kind of data related to an identified or identifiable person, it can reveal also core biographical personal data. What is needed is the strengthening of the existing law that protects personal data (including location data), and a flexible legal response that can incorporate the ever-evolving and unknown advances in technology. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194700 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.847 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cheung, ASY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-17T02:03:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-17T02:03:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Computer Law & Security Review, 2014, v. 30 n. 1, p. 41-54 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0267-3649 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194700 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Adding to the current debate, this article focuses on the personal data and privacy challenges posed by private industry's use of smart mobile devices that provide location-based services to users and consumers. Directly relevant to personal data protection are valid concerns about the collection, retention, use and accessibility of this kind of personal data, in relation to which a key issue is whether valid consent is ever obtained from users. While it is indisputable that geo-location technologies serve important functions, their potential use for surveillance and invasion of privacy should not be overlooked. Thus, in this study we address the question of how a legal regime can ensure the proper functionality of geo-location technologies while preventing their misuse. In doing so, we examine whether information gathered from geo-location technologies is a form of personal data, how it is related to privacy and whether current legal protection mechanisms are adequate. We argue that geo-location data are indeed a type of personal data. Not only is this kind of data related to an identified or identifiable person, it can reveal also core biographical personal data. What is needed is the strengthening of the existing law that protects personal data (including location data), and a flexible legal response that can incorporate the ever-evolving and unknown advances in technology. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Advanced Technology. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/422550/description?navopenmenu=-2 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Computer Law & Security Review | en_US |
dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Computer Law & Security Report. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Computer Law & Security Report, 2014, v. 30 n. 1, p. 41-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.clsr.2013.11.005 | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | ePrivacy | - |
dc.subject | Geo-location technology | - |
dc.subject | Location privacy | - |
dc.subject | Mobile services | - |
dc.subject | Smartphones | - |
dc.subject | Surreptitious surveillance | - |
dc.title | Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Cheung, ASY: annechue@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Cheung, ASY=rp01243 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.clsr.2013.11.005 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84895065041 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 227715 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 30 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 41 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 54 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000331486000004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0267-3649 | - |