Re: Mobile Location Based Service user privacy (commercial issue)

>> Things become more complicated when more than one user is involved. Say
>> parent wants to know whereabouts of his/her daughter.
>
> Push: At regular intervals, or when the location changes, the daughter's
> device sends a message containing the location to the parent. This might
> take the form of a public-key encrypted mail message, or the daughter
> might have an account on the parent's computer with a trust relationship
> established with a cryptographic key. The location could then be written
> into a file to which the parent has read access, e.g. with SSH.
>
> Pull: The parent has an account on the daughter's device, which has read
> access to the position data. When the parent wants to know the location,
> they connect to the daughter's device using SSH and read it.
>
> (currently, as it happens, my daughter has an account on my computer and
> she has an account on mine. In view of her age & level of computing
> knowledge, I am the administrator on both)

i missed the part where the daughter makes the decision of what and if
to reveal.

randy
Received on Sat Jul 21 12:10:16 2001