Locational Privacy
Leo Reyzin pointed out the following EFF article on locational privacy. The article does a reasonable job of explaining the role that new technology can have in both violating and protecting privacy.
I can’t count how many times I’ve had a similar conversation (ok, monologue) with government folks and non-technical friends. Maybe next time I can spare myself the trouble and email them the link.
You may want to also see here.
In general, it seems that putting location privacy in the differential privacy framework is an interesting open question.
Jonathan Katz
August 9, 2009 at 8:15 pm