The standard W3C Geolocation API can signi cantly facilitate geospatial data collection as it provides a simple set of operations for requesting geolocation services across indoor and outdoor spaces through the Web. Importantly, this API is privacy-aware in that it provides a basic privacy mechanism for requesting the user's consent to location acquisition. In this paper we address the question on whether this privacy mechanism is su cient to conduct a project for the collection of geospatial content, in compliance with privacy laws. The question is of practical relevance as the use of geolocation standards in line with privacy regulations would make the development of volunteered geography projects easier. In this paper we present an interdisciplinary analysis spanning across technology and law, and driven by an application case. We show the limitations of this API and discuss a possible extension in line with privacy norms. Although we con ne ourselves to consider European regulations, we believe that this study can be of more general concern.

Privacy-aware geolocation interfaces for volunteered geography : a case study / M.L. Damiani, C. Cuijpers - In: First ACM Sigspatial workshop on geocrowded and volunteered geography : november 6-9, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA, USA : proceedings / [a cura di] Goodchild, Mike ... [et. al.]. - New York : Association for computing machinery, 2012 Nov. - ISBN 9781450316941. - pp. 83-90 (( Intervento presentato al 1. convegno ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information tenutosi a Redondo Beach, USA nel 2012 [10.1145/2442952.2442967].

Privacy-aware geolocation interfaces for volunteered geography : a case study

M.L. Damiani
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2012

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The standard W3C Geolocation API can signi cantly facilitate geospatial data collection as it provides a simple set of operations for requesting geolocation services across indoor and outdoor spaces through the Web. Importantly, this API is privacy-aware in that it provides a basic privacy mechanism for requesting the user's consent to location acquisition. In this paper we address the question on whether this privacy mechanism is su cient to conduct a project for the collection of geospatial content, in compliance with privacy laws. The question is of practical relevance as the use of geolocation standards in line with privacy regulations would make the development of volunteered geography projects easier. In this paper we present an interdisciplinary analysis spanning across technology and law, and driven by an application case. We show the limitations of this API and discuss a possible extension in line with privacy norms. Although we con ne ourselves to consider European regulations, we believe that this study can be of more general concern.
geolocation standards; location-based services; privacy
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nov-2012
Association for computing machinery
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