New Technology Combines GPS Benefits with Privacy Protection

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This spatial layout shows how four messages relate to each other with messages 1 2 and 4 included in the same cloaking box (solid rectangle) in order to blur the identities of the users. Credit: Bugra Gedik and Ling Liu. 2007 IEEE.
This spatial layout shows how four messages relate to each other, with messages 1, 2, and 4 included in the same cloaking box (solid rectangle) in order to blur the identities of the users. Credit: Bugra Gedik and Ling Liu. ©2007 IEEE.

As GPS and other wireless location-based technologies are becoming prevalent on cell phones and other everyday devices, two researchers are thinking about the social reaction to constant surveillance. As George Orwell envisioned, a world in which everyone is being watched opens the doors for privacy abuse and totalitarian control.


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