DATA PROTECTION: Location Technology and Data Protection

✍ Scribed by Heather Rowe; Robin McGilligan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(01)00511-8

✦ Synopsis

Currently, the nature of mobile telephony is such that a telecommunications operator needs to know where a mobile phone is on its network and the technology allows this to within a few hundred yards of the phone, or even less. New mobile telecommunications technologies are expected to enable the location of more or less the exact positioning of a mobile user's terminal equipment. While this sort of technology has advantages that clearly benefit mobile users (for example, to enable emergency services to send assistance), it remains important to protect the privacy of mobile users and this technology should not be allowed to create a situation where mobile users are under 'constant surveillance'.