Locational Privacy

Data Privacy Day is January 28, 2011

How to Avoid Losing Locational Privacy – Conclusion

In Part 2, I showed how the EFF recommends building location systems which don't collect the data in the first place. How is that accomplished? Cryptographic protocols. One of these is electronic cash . Electronic cash...

How to Avoid Losing Locational Privacy – Part 2

In my last post, I outlined the concept of location privacy and gave some examples of how you can be tracked when you're out and and about. You may say, "So, what? What do I care if people know where I'm going? I'm not doing anything wrong." Maybe so, in your eyes. But in the post-9/11 climate,...

How to Avoid Losing Locational Privacy – Part 1

You've never heard the term before? Well, here's what it is according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): "Locational privacy (also known as "location privacy") is the ability of an individual to move in public space with the...