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Four Billion Little Brothers?: Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection

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Katie Shilton

November 1, 2009

Participatory sensing technologies could improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost to our privacy?

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Katie has done a great job identifying quite a set of mechanisms and practices that definitely deserve further attention by consumers. I'd like to see an initiate for full disclosure of capabilities of mobile devices and reasonably efficient configuration interfaces allowing owners of mobile devices to opt in or out of using these features as they choose. In my opinion, the worst scenario would be to have a mobile device with participatory sensing technology used by a third party and not have the owner/user aware of the behavior. A great article.

   — Dennis Dube, October 29, 2009
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