mashup* - Location, Privacy, Where I Am and Why It's OK to Lie About This
1. Location, Privacy, Where Am I &
Why It’s OK to Lie About That
Gary Gale, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
mashup* Being Location Aware, March 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
5. “where am I?”
“where are my friends?”
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
6. “where am I?”
“where are my friends?”
“who’s near to me?”
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
7. “where am I?”
“where are my friends?”
“who’s near to me?”
“what’s near to me?”
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
8. “where am I?”
“where are my friends?”
“who’s near to me?”
“what’s near to me?”
“what’s relevant to me?”
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
11. “The (User Location Market) … will
nearly triple in revenue this year, to
$1.3 billion from $485 million in 2007,
and will reach $8 billion in 2011.”
Source: Gartner Research
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
14. “Will this year be the year in
which all things ‘contextual’,
‘app’, ‘local’, ‘urban’, 'tags',
'lidar', ‘smartphone’,
‘convenience’, 'Cell ID',
‘spontaneity’, ‘infolust’, and
‘GPS’ finally come together in
one orgasmic celebration of
map-based tracking, finding,
knowing and connecting? ...
And now that superior
geographical information is
accessible on-the-go, from in-
car navigation to iPhones, the
sky is the limit.”
Source: http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/halfdozentrends2009/#mapmania
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
17. Privacy?
“the ability of an individual to seclude
themselves or information about
themselves and thereby reveal
themselves selectively”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
18. Privacy?
“the ability of an individual to seclude
themselves or information about
themselves and thereby reveal
themselves selectively”
Opt Out
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
20. The Phone Book Ex-Directory
The Electoral Roll Private Register
Cold Call Marketing Telephone Preference
Databases Service
Mail-shot Marketing Mailing Preference
Databases Service
Whois Information Whois Privacy
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
21. The Phone Book Ex-Directory
The Electoral Roll Private Register
Cold Call Marketing Telephone Preference
Databases Service
Mail-shot Marketing Mailing Preference
Databases Service
Whois Information Whois Privacy
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
23. “You already have zero privacy -
get over it”
Scott McNealy, Chair and Founder of Sun Microsystems
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
41. ... think of it as your
location stream
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
42. ... think of it as your
location stream
... how best to make an
informed choice on whether to
use a location service?
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
44. You should ...
• be able to view, review and control
your location data ... at all times
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
45. You should ...
• be able to view, review and control
your location data ... at all times
• be able to add or remove
permission for your location data ...
at any time
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
46. You should ...
• be able to view, review and control
your location data ... at all times
• be able to add or remove
permission for your location data ...
at any time
• be able to know how your location
data will be used
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
47. You should ...
• be able to view, review and control
your location data ... at all times
• be able to add or remove
permission for your location data ...
at any time
• be able to know how your location
data will be used
• have the right to security and to
protection
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
49. You should ...
• be able to control the accuracy and
privacy of your location
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
50. You should ...
• be able to control the accuracy and
privacy of your location
• be able to suspend or remove your
location data ... at any time
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
51. You should ...
• be able to control the accuracy and
privacy of your location
• be able to suspend or remove your
location data ... at any time
• be able to know when and how your
location is being used
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
52. You should ...
• be able to control the accuracy and
privacy of your location
• be able to suspend or remove your
location data ... at any time
• be able to know when and how your
location is being used
• have the right to give only
necessary personal and location
data
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
54. You should ...
• be able to know how your data is
stored, is used and for how long
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
55. You should ...
• be able to know how your data is
stored, is used and for how long
• have the right to honesty and
transparency at all times
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
56. You should ...
• be able to know how your data is
stored, is used and for how long
• have the right to honesty and
transparency at all times
• be able to be your own source of
truth
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
58. “There comes a point where you realise
you're not On the web, you're In the
web. For better or worse.”
Alfie Dennen, Founder of moblog.net
Source: http://twitter.com/Alfie/statuses/1308056158
Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
Good evening everyone, I’m Gary Gale and I’m part of the Geo Technologies group from Yahoo!
Within the Geo Technologies group we are helping to answer some fundamental questions to do with location ... where am I? ... where are my friends? ... who’s near to me? ... what’s near me? ... what’s relevant to where I am?
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
If you use a Yahoo! service, you’ve probably used our platforms and APIs without even knowing it. Behind the scenes we provide the heavy lifting of geocoding, geoparsing and geoidentification for a whole raft of Yahoo! services. We also provide a series of services and APIs to the public and the developer community. This evening though I’m going to take a look at the issues behind location privacy that you as a user and consumer of these services needs to be aware of ... issues that apply to all location services and not just those which my group provides.
So let’s start with location, location based services, LBS, location based mobile services, LBMS; there’s loads of differing acronyms and terms but the key point if that regardless of how you choose to categorise it, this market is already immensely valuable and Gartner Research’s figures, made in the middle of 2008, clearly shows just how much growth is predicted and expected in this area.
Location is also currently perceived as cool, with trendwatching.com identifying something it calls “mapmania” as one of 6 consumer trends which are ones to watch in 2009
Location is also currently perceived as cool, with trendwatching.com identifying something it calls “mapmania” as one of 6 consumer trends which are ones to watch in 2009
So we’ve established that location is valuable and that location is cool. But what about privacy? There’s a great definition of what privacy *is* on Wikipedia. Before we even talk about location and privacy there’s a whole slew of existing areas of your life where the default privacy model is one where you explicitly have to say that you don’t want to reveal this information; it’s explicitly opt out
So we’ve established that location is valuable and that location is cool. But what about privacy? There’s a great definition of what privacy *is* on Wikipedia. Before we even talk about location and privacy there’s a whole slew of existing areas of your life where the default privacy model is one where you explicitly have to say that you don’t want to reveal this information; it’s explicitly opt out
So we’ve established that location is valuable and that location is cool. But what about privacy? There’s a great definition of what privacy *is* on Wikipedia. Before we even talk about location and privacy there’s a whole slew of existing areas of your life where the default privacy model is one where you explicitly have to say that you don’t want to reveal this information; it’s explicitly opt out
So we’ve established that location is valuable and that location is cool. But what about privacy? There’s a great definition of what privacy *is* on Wikipedia. Before we even talk about location and privacy there’s a whole slew of existing areas of your life where the default privacy model is one where you explicitly have to say that you don’t want to reveal this information; it’s explicitly opt out
So by areas of your life I’m talking about your entry in the phone book, on the local electoral roll, in cold call and mail-shot marketing databases or in the whois entry for your domain. For each of these there’s an opt out available. You can go ex-directory. You can elect not to go onto the public register of voters. You can register with the TPS and MPS to prevent cold calling and mailshots. You can pay a premium to your domain registrar not to publish your contact information.
So by areas of your life I’m talking about your entry in the phone book, on the local electoral roll, in cold call and mail-shot marketing databases or in the whois entry for your domain. For each of these there’s an opt out available. You can go ex-directory. You can elect not to go onto the public register of voters. You can register with the TPS and MPS to prevent cold calling and mailshots. You can pay a premium to your domain registrar not to publish your contact information.
But again, and I’m well aware that I’m hammering this point home, this is all explicitly opt out; in order to move to a position that you as an individual are happy or comfortable with you have to take action, you have to opt out.
And it’s the fact that you continually have to opt out of different services and in different ways, where that is even possible, that probably informs Scott McNealy’s views on this topic
And it’s the fact that you continually have to opt out of different services and in different ways, where that is even possible, that probably informs Scott McNealy’s views on this topic
People’s approach to privacy is very personal; some people think nothing of publicising their telephone numbers on the web, whereas for others, a more controlled, opt in, approach is preferable.
But location based services have, in the main, taken an opposing position on the privacy of their users; to use such services you have to move from a default position of having full location privacy and explicity opt in
But the media doesn’t seem to have caught onto this change. financialnewsusa.com here uses “we know where you are” as a headline, but you would have to opt in.
And as interest in location grows, the popular and technical media frequently home in on the topic of privacy.
Here’s The Register’s coverage of the launch of Fire Eagle and positive coverage it was, though the headline focuses on privacy as opt out by default and the article contains choice phrases such as “already has privacy advocates in a flap” and “expects users to lie every now and then”, which actually is a good thing as we’ll see in a few slides time.
It didn’t get much better with the over anxious coverage of Google’s Latitude, as this front page from the London Metro shows; again the headline focuses on privacy as an opt out.
Thankfully the tide seems to be turning on coverage such as this, with CNet trying to inject some calming reason into the debate, pointing out the interesting dichotomy of the UK MPs claiming location services, and Latitude in particular, are an invasion of privacy.
But the media doesn’t seem to have caught onto this change. financialnewsusa.com here uses “we know where you are” as a headline, but you would have to opt in.
And as interest in location grows, the popular and technical media frequently home in on the topic of privacy.
Here’s The Register’s coverage of the launch of Fire Eagle and positive coverage it was, though the headline focuses on privacy as opt out by default and the article contains choice phrases such as “already has privacy advocates in a flap” and “expects users to lie every now and then”, which actually is a good thing as we’ll see in a few slides time.
It didn’t get much better with the over anxious coverage of Google’s Latitude, as this front page from the London Metro shows; again the headline focuses on privacy as an opt out.
Thankfully the tide seems to be turning on coverage such as this, with CNet trying to inject some calming reason into the debate, pointing out the interesting dichotomy of the UK MPs claiming location services, and Latitude in particular, are an invasion of privacy.
But the media doesn’t seem to have caught onto this change. financialnewsusa.com here uses “we know where you are” as a headline, but you would have to opt in.
And as interest in location grows, the popular and technical media frequently home in on the topic of privacy.
Here’s The Register’s coverage of the launch of Fire Eagle and positive coverage it was, though the headline focuses on privacy as opt out by default and the article contains choice phrases such as “already has privacy advocates in a flap” and “expects users to lie every now and then”, which actually is a good thing as we’ll see in a few slides time.
It didn’t get much better with the over anxious coverage of Google’s Latitude, as this front page from the London Metro shows; again the headline focuses on privacy as an opt out.
Thankfully the tide seems to be turning on coverage such as this, with CNet trying to inject some calming reason into the debate, pointing out the interesting dichotomy of the UK MPs claiming location services, and Latitude in particular, are an invasion of privacy.
So we can see that we need to stop thinking about a default policy of opt out and start thinking about opt in as the default, at least as far as responsible, well thought out, location services are concerned.
So we can see that we need to stop thinking about a default policy of opt out and start thinking about opt in as the default, at least as far as responsible, well thought out, location services are concerned.
Here’s how opt in works where location is concerned. Google’s Latitude is an opt in service and you are able control how much, or how little, information you reveal.
Fire Eagle also provides fine grained, opt in, controls; you can specify what an application which connects to Fire Eagle can, and just as importantly, cannot do. And you can choose to hide yourself totally and even purge your location information from Fire Eagle.
Here’s how opt in works where location is concerned. Google’s Latitude is an opt in service and you are able control how much, or how little, information you reveal.
Fire Eagle also provides fine grained, opt in, controls; you can specify what an application which connects to Fire Eagle can, and just as importantly, cannot do. And you can choose to hide yourself totally and even purge your location information from Fire Eagle.
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Now Fire Eagle has a badge that you can use on WordPress powered blogs. It displays the text “Fire Eagle last spotted me at” followed by a person’s location at whatever level of accuracy they’re comfortable with. Let’s see what a quick web search throw up for this ...
Taking just three of the hits from that search, we have an Ubuntu Linux fan in Colorado, a travel afficionado in the United States and an “Apple Kremlinologist and Price Philip worshipper” from New York who’s currently in Paris. These are all real world examples taken from a live web search.
Taking just three of the hits from that search, we have an Ubuntu Linux fan in Colorado, a travel afficionado in the United States and an “Apple Kremlinologist and Price Philip worshipper” from New York who’s currently in Paris. These are all real world examples taken from a live web search.
Taking just three of the hits from that search, we have an Ubuntu Linux fan in Colorado, a travel afficionado in the United States and an “Apple Kremlinologist and Price Philip worshipper” from New York who’s currently in Paris. These are all real world examples taken from a live web search.
Taking just three of the hits from that search, we have an Ubuntu Linux fan in Colorado, a travel afficionado in the United States and an “Apple Kremlinologist and Price Philip worshipper” from New York who’s currently in Paris. These are all real world examples taken from a live web search.
Taking just three of the hits from that search, we have an Ubuntu Linux fan in Colorado, a travel afficionado in the United States and an “Apple Kremlinologist and Price Philip worshipper” from New York who’s currently in Paris. These are all real world examples taken from a live web search.
Your location is both powerful and valuable. It’s far less about where you currently are and much more about where you’ve been; home, school, work, holiday.
Your location is both powerful and valuable. It’s far less about where you currently are and much more about where you’ve been; home, school, work, holiday.
Let’s call this your location stream. It’s deeply personal information. I touched on responsible, well thought out, location services but how do you tell? There’s some pretty crucial questions you should ask yourself before you start to use a location service, any location service. So here’s a list of points you should bear in mind when deciding on whether to use a location service ... call it an “opt in location manifesto”
Let’s call this your location stream. It’s deeply personal information. I touched on responsible, well thought out, location services but how do you tell? There’s some pretty crucial questions you should ask yourself before you start to use a location service, any location service. So here’s a list of points you should bear in mind when deciding on whether to use a location service ... call it an “opt in location manifesto”
These are not decisions someone can make for you; you, as an individual, need to assess whether you feel comfortable with allowing a third party access, albeit limited, access to your data and to your location.
These are not decisions someone can make for you; you, as an individual, need to assess whether you feel comfortable with allowing a third party access, albeit limited, access to your data and to your location.
Finally, I’m a big fan of “eating one’s own dog food” and there’s no better way for me to show my trust in what some services are doing with my location than to use them.
So here’s a badge from tripit.com showing not only where I am but there’s also the scope for displaying where I’ll be. (It’d also be great if tripit was able to use Fire Eagle but that’s another topic entirely).
And then, as I’m a bit of a compulsive Fire Eagle location updater, there’s also my Fire Eagle location, displayed via the blogloc badge. I’m more than happy with the way in which tripit.com and Fire Eagle handle my location but don’t just take my word for it, write your own “opt in location manifesto”.
And then, as I’m a bit of a compulsive Fire Eagle location updater, there’s also my Fire Eagle location, displayed via the blogloc badge. I’m more than happy with the way in which tripit.com and Fire Eagle handle my location but don’t just take my word for it, write your own “opt in location manifesto”.