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Thursday, 28 September 2006

Geolocation and privacy

As our gadgets come to know where we are, we need to think about who should be able to find this out.
A metaphor that came to mind is that we need be building the Weasley's clock, not the Marauder's map.
Update: Jorge points out that Microsoft Researchers in Cambridge have built a prototype.

Technorati Tags: digital rights, ethics, geo

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