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Location Data in the Context of Public Health, Research, and Law Enforcement: An Exploration of Governance Frameworks: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... data in the context of public policy risks to vulnerable The workshop examined the collection, interpretation, populations and individuals and risks associated with and use of location data by government, academia, and corporate control of location data, suggesting that an industry.1 understanding of risks must inform both the regulation of location data and decisions about how location data During opening remarks, workshop planning committee are aggregated and used. Co-chair Caroline Buckee (Harvard T.H.
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... 3 Dr. Vembar was a member of the workshop planning committee.
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... , but appetite for granular level data, but anonymization does the same data may be repurposed by law enforcement not work in the case of high dimensional data.15 There for other uses. While some jurisdictions have enacted has also been a recent change in awareness regarding 9 Angwin said her newsroom identified 47 data brokers based on their 11 See Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act (MIPSA)
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... The to public agencies. use of synthetic data breaks the one to one relationship between data and user, but provides the same level of Sivaram discussed the interest of governments in Uber granularity as original data -- this means that granular trip data, which she defined as combinations of location level data can be shared with a broad group of data users data timestamps and vehicle information.
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... She asked including government agencies, that collect and use and panelists to reflect on privacy concerns and use case process location data, she said, as this is an important needs in relation to data resolution and scale. way of incentivizing responsible data practices from data providers and data recipients.
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... Location data are profoundly valuable to law enforcement officials, but the use of location data by these entities Amy Wesolowski (Johns Hopkins University School raises significant privacy concerns. In the law of Public Health)
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... Wade were to be overturned, law enforcement could extended period of time." use location data to identify women and girls visiting abortion clinics and prosecute them.17 LOCATION DATA: PRIVACY CONCERNS AND RISKS OF HARM Session moderator Paul Ohm introduced the panel Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern University School of by stating that the panelists, experts in the field of Law) discussed the concept of "waiver" -- the idea that information privacy, had been asked to consider location "when you knowingly expose yourself to others, you data in the context of privacy concerns and risks of harm.
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... He cited the example of South Korea's population. This led to the development of a surveillance use of contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, framework that allowed minority Whites to oppress noting that, while South Korea's security concerns vis- the Black majority population of South Africa -- and à-vis North Korea have led to strict privacy protections, later inspired eugenics programs in California and Nazi the South Korean government has carved out exceptions Germany.
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... §§ 2511–2520; 2701–2712; 3121–3127. Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and 22 This standard pre-dates Carpenter, which requires law enforcement to Repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
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... which says, "‘location data' means any data processed constitution that prevents police fishing expeditions and in an electronic communications network, indicating dragnet requests, and constrains abusive attempts by the geographic position of the terminal equipment of a law enforcement and others in government to compile user of a publicly available electronic communications dossiers on past activities. While telecommunications service."26 This is a very narrow definition because it companies are prohibited by law from selling cell refers only to location data processed by the operator that phone location data without users' consent, most data are either made anonymous or have been collected with an brokers can sell location data to whomever they want, individual's consent.
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... "We do not said that we need to think critically about the need for a know," she said, to what extent the Fourth Amendment consumer protection law for a digital age, noting that there controls the buying of data by law enforcement or other is a lot of evidence that surveillance regimes, particularly parts of the federal government (and state and local location surveillance regimes, apply with the greatest governments) ." Our regulatory mechanisms, she said, are frequency and most heavy-handed force to marginalized lacking, and we have -- notwithstanding the workshop's and disadvantaged communities.
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... ; of Public Health, Research, and Law Enforcement: An Exploration YVES-ALEXANDRE de MONTJOYE (Imperial College London) ; of Governance Frameworks, Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.


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