The Hill Notes Today’s Location Privacy Hearing
Details of who testified, along with supporting documents, are now online.
From reading through the documents I see that Lorrie F. Cranor used Locaccino in her research. That’s built on the platform from Zipano Technologies. I interviewed the CEO of that company, Ziv Baum in this podcast.
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A tease from what’s ahead today:
Michael Altschul of CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade group, said its members are in the process of revising its guidelines for collecting and sharing location information to reflect the fact that wireless carriers are not always involved in the collection process.
Consumers can download an application to a handset without any involvement or knowledge by a wireless carrier, so CTIA’s guidelines must now also address software providers.
Still, Altschul said CTIA requires service providers to clearly notify consumers of how their location data will be used and to periodically remind them when their data is being shared with others.
Congress, he said, has a oversight role in making sure services abide by the guidelines, as well as clarifying how location data may be released to law enforcement.
“Service providers need clarity as to not be caught in the middle of these disputes regarding the appropriate legal standard,” according to his prepared testimony.
A press release notes that Carnegie Mellon University’s Lorrie F. Cranor will be there, too.
