Preserving Privacy in Environments with Location-Based Applications
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Legal and Ethical Implications of Employee Location Monitoring
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 - Volume 05
The Emerging Ethics of Humancentric GPS Tracking and Monitoring
ICMB '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Business
Where We At? Mobile Phones Bring GPS to the Masses
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Communications of the ACM
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This case presents the possibility that commercial mobile tracking and monitoring solutions will become widely adopted for the practice of non-traditional covert surveillance within a community setting, resulting in community members engaging in the covert observation of family, friends, or acquaintances. This case investigates five stakeholder relationships using scenarios to demonstrate the potential socio-ethical implications that tracking and monitoring will have on society. The five stakeholder types explored in this case include: i husband-wife partner-partner, ii parent-child, iii employer-employee, iv friend-friend, and v stranger-stranger. Mobile technologies like mobile camera phones, global positioning system data loggers, spatial street databases, radio-frequency identification, and other pervasive computing can be used to gather real-time, detailed evidence for or against a given position in a given context. Limited laws and ethical guidelines exist for members of the community to follow when it comes to what is permitted when using unobtrusive technologies to capture multimedia and other data e.g., longitude and latitude waypoints that can be electronically chronicled. In this case, the evident risks associated with such practices are presented and explored.