December 18, 2007 • 6:22 am 0
Virtual Cable nav system superimposes route guidance on your windshield in 3D – Engadget
So, I created a prototype HUD for car navigation once upon a time, but it was nothing like this. The Virtual Cable is such an intelligent and intuitive design that I’m jealous and in awe at the same time. Still, drivers will need to use their brains so they don’t end up like this.
December 14, 2007 • 1:01 pm 0
TechCrunch: Path Intelligence Monitors Foot Traffic in Retail Stores By Pinging People’s Phones
I think the title of the article is just a tad inaccurate. It sounds like the Path Intelligence system listens for the pings that already occur. It doesn’t actually ping them itself.  It would be very interesting to see how the data is graphed.
October 28, 2007 • 9:07 am 0
Technology, the Stealthy Tattletale – New York Times
via Slashdot
October 12, 2007 • 8:50 am 0
July 18, 2007 • 1:30 pm 0
The Wired article highlights how the technology in most modern cell phones was used to help determine the area.
January 16, 2007 • 11:59 am 0
December 6, 2006 • 3:26 pm 0
June 19, 2006 • 10:14 pm 0
A Value Sensitive Design Investigation of Privacy for Location-Enhanced Computing (PDF)
I read over this a little earlier today, and I think it provides a great framework for system designers to begin to contemplate any effects on privacy. Of particular note is the “directionality of information flow”: location information flowing inwards to the user is more likely to remain under their control. The location information flowing from the user outwards, however, is more susceptible to collection, interception, and analysis.
Filed under: Further Reading, LBS, Privacy
May 26, 2006 • 9:43 pm 1
Duluth News Tribune | 05/26/2006 | Cell phones, laptops let the world know where you are
I actually kind of like this article, but I wish they had done a few things differently. For one, it’s still much more difficult than implied to track someone with a great deal of accuracy (“pinpoint” is used again; and so the trend continues).
What I do like is this quote from the Center for Democracy and Technology: “tracking ‘reveals sensitive information about a person that may have no relation to criminal activity’.”
Also note the mention from Skyhook Wireless‘ Jed Rice that there are no federal privacy laws for wireless location tracking.
