Localizing the internet: implications of and challenges in geo-locating everything digital

Authors:
Michael R. Evans;Chintan Patel
Affiliations:
University of Minnesota, Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN
Venue:
SSTD'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advances in spatial and temporal databases
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The Internet allows for near-total anonymity in online discussions and transactions; leading to challenges such as identity theft, spear phishing, cyber-bullying and lack of user-retailer trust for small online retailers. In an effort to restore prosperity, security and trust to our increasingly digitally interconnected society, it is important to tie some sense of the physical world in with the cyber world, e.g., creating a geo-coded Internet. However, geo-coding the vast amount of content currently on the web, along with providing reliable geo-location authentication services against the difficulties of spatial analysis and the inherent probabilistic estimate of current location-identification technology.