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On the heels of Microsoft’s recent release of privacy guidelines for software developers, here’s an excellent example of another company working with privacy scholars to try to protect end-user privacy when using location-based mobile devices. From ComptuerWorld: Intel Drafts Privacy License for Mobile Device Software Intel Corp. has attached a privacy license to its new [...]

The rise of camera phones, blogs and photo sharing sites like Flickr means people are frequently taking pictures of complete strangers in public places and posting them on the web. A reader asks Wired magazine if that’s a violation of privacy: I sometimes snap pictures of strangers and post them on my blog and Flickr. [...]

Sprint recently launched its Family Locator cellphone tracking program, entering the growing market of GPS-based cellphone surveillance products. Sprint has apparently engaged in value-sensitive design of this service: The child is notified by a text message each time his or her location is provided to the parent or guardian. This level of transparency is absent [...]

The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University publishes a biweekly news magazine called NYC24. The current issue is on privacy: With 8 million people crammed into 321 square miles, privacy in New York City has always been a rare – and much valued – commodity. Now this basic right is being constricted by the [...]

Examples of surveillance and tracking via cellphone are emerging at a rapid pace lately. Business Week reports on several cell-phone tracking services available in Korea. According to the article, more than four million Koreans have signed up for services that can determine and track a cellular subscriber’s location. Some of the applications are quite interesting [...]