On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:39, Dan R. Greening wrote: > When last I checked, EU law precludes > things like geography-based personalization, like the stuff Nathan > Eagle does, because you cannot store location-tracking information > with user-identification in the EU ... like EVER... even if you > inform the consumer. A whole class of applications is now verboten > there.
I can't really agree. That you cannot _store_ the location of a user doesn't mean that you cannot use it if the user willingly provides it to you. So, the way to do this is that the user's device itself knows its location (by a built-in GPS, being in range of bluetooth devices with an ID, or something). If the user wants geography-based personalisation, the user agent communicates the necessary data to the provider, the provider acts upon it, but doesn't store it. That's the general privacy-friendly approach to things, I feel. Fact is, my little phone has 42 MB of non-volatile memory, which can contain all information I would willingly share with anyone (for the lifetime of the phone), and I bring it along everywhere. It can communicate over GPRS over long range or Bluetooth over short range. So, everything is there, ask me politely to share it and let me know how it will be useful to me, and I'll give you the information (possibly by some automated method). Well, I'm sort of a transparency guy too, but I'd really like to try this approach out first. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
