Justin Elliot has more on the issue of how easy it is — or isn’t — for law enforcement to obtain your GPS data. The issue grabbed a lot of attention last week after graduate student Chris Soghoian published some information suggesting that Sprint had gotten 8 million requests last year for customer data. Sprint…
Tag: locational privacy
Google Adds Location History to Latitude: Feature Request, or Strategic Rollout?
Michael Zimmer writes: When Google launched Google Latitude 9 months ago, they took steps to ensure users’ locational privacy was protected. Among the most important privacy-protecting features was the fact that Google didn’t keep a log of user locations on its servers; only the most recent locational ping was stored. Not even law enforcement could…
A casualty of the technology revolution: ‘locational privacy’
Adam Cohen of The New York Times has an opinion piece on locational privacy and why there hasn’t been as much attention paid to its loss as we might expect. He hypothesizes that one reason may be that we enjoy having certain technology in our lives, and that the down side of such technology may…