It's pretty trivial today to look at a device/person's association data and reconstruct where they've been. I suspect we all use this data from time to time to diagnose a user reported problem, and someone could theoretically use it for something more intrusive. It's a policy and procedure issue rather than technical, and policy decisions about privacy are rarely something we are responsible for setting. I'd focus on the technical challenges and leave the privacy policy piece your college leadership to decide.
We're looking at Cisco's "DNA Spaces" as one option for contact tracing and occupancy forecasting, but I think the better approach will be in the short-distance contact tracing the likes of Apple and Google are working on. Unless your WiFi network is designed around location awareness, the accuracy is likely to be too poor to get meaningful correlations. Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of McGuire, Michael Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless location data for contact tracing As I'm sure everyone else is doing, we're working on plans for having our campus community rejoin us at some point. The question of "how far back do you keep wireless logs" was just asked which of course leads to "we want to see where a person has been on a given day". This of course has privacy issues along with the technical challenges of storing and accessing that data. Has anyone else been asked to look into this or begun to make preparations for such? Being an Aruba shop we already leverage AirWave reports for our campus police when tracing lost or stolen devices as well as where a user has been or devices in an area at a specific time. This request seems to be a larger scale with potentially more moving parts. - Michael Michael McGuire Network Systems Administrator Monmouth University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 732.263.5589 [Monmouth University Logo]<https://www.monmouth.edu/?utm_source=Email+Signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Signature+Generator> 400 Cedar Avenue West Long Branch, NJ 07764 monmouth.edu<https://www.monmouth.edu/?utm_source=Email+Signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Signature+Generator> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/social-icons-twitter.png]<https://twitter.com/monmouthu> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/social-icons-facebook.png]<https://www.facebook.com/MonmouthUniversity> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/social-icons-instagram.png]<https://instagram.com/monmouthuniversity> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/social-icons-snapchat.png]<https://www.snapchat.com/add/monmouthu> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/social-icons-linkedin.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/monmouth-university/> [https://www.monmouth.edu/identity/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2018/08/icons-green.png] We are a green campus. Think before you print. ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
