Location-Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In Nicole A. Ozer, Esq.

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Location-Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In Nicole A. Ozer, Esq. Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director ACLU of Northern California dotrights.org/LBS

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Location-Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In

Nicole A. Ozer, Esq. Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director

ACLU of Northern Californiadotrights.org/LBS

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Why Should Your BusinessCare About Privacy?

•Satisfy Consumer Demands

•Keep Business Partners Happy

•Avoid Expensive Lawsuits

•Generate Positive Press and Build Brand

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Your Business Should Care Because Your Users Care

•80% of global consumers are concerned about unauthorized access to their personal information.

•55% of people using LBS are concerned about loss of privacy.

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Stone Age Laws Don’t Work with Digital Age Businesses

•2004: Facebook launched

•1998: Google founded

•1994: Yahoo & Amazon founded

•1990: World Wide Web created

•1986: Electronic Communications Privacy Act

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New Technology and Old Laws Yields Unpredictable Results

•Can law enforcement use GPS to track location without a search warrant?

•Can law enforcement demand location records from cell carriers and LBS without a warrant?

•What are the legal requirements for your next product?

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Location Information is Valuable… and Sensitive

“A person who knows all of another’s travels can deduce whether he is a weekly church-goer, a heavy drinker, a

regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular

individuals or political groups—and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts.”

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Learn from the Good Steps and Missteps of Others

•Keep Users Informed

•Protect Users While Gathering Data

•Safeguard User Data From Demands

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Next Steps

•Best Practices for Businesses• Baking Privacy into Business Development

• Technical Measures to Protect Privacy

•Updated Privacy Legislation• Warrant Requirement for Location Data

• Audit and Oversight of Demands for Information

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Nicole A. Ozer, Esq.Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director

ACLU of Northern California