yabb: yet another big brother (identity.next, the hague, 8 dec 2010)
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Presentation at the Identity.next conference in The Hague http://identitynext.nl/The presentation explains the role of location providers such as Google and Skyhook Wireless, the Google Wifi debacle and the privacy issues when MAC addresses are being exposed (both of wifi hotspots and of client devices).TRANSCRIPT
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Yet another Big Brother
(the infrastructure behind location-based services)
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Whoami
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Location-based services?
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How does it work?
GPS
Antennas
Wifi
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Skyhook
11Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
12Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
13Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
14Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
15Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
16Source: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
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Privacy issues
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Is your wifi hotspot personal data?
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Who monitors the location provider?
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Is the client MAC address personal data
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Lessons Learned
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Privacy <> security
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Not encrypted <> Public
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Personal Data <>
Personally Identifiable Data
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Data can be (and will become increasingly)
a liability
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Resources
• http://epic.org/privacy/streetview/• http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/20
10/04/data-collected-by-google-cars.html• http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wi
fi-data-collection-update.html• http://edri.org • http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
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