[LINK] RFC: Draft APF Policy re Location Data

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 6/05/11 9:10 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>                       Australian Privacy Foundation
>                     Policy Statement re Location Data
>             http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/LocData-1105.html
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>                  Feedback to mailto:chair at privacy.org.au
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Roger,

There is a gap in the policy: the use of devices to collect information 
about third parties.

At least Google and Apple do this. The Android device or iPhone collects 
and geolocates information about WiFi access points visible to them.

You refer to consent by the user - but in this case, "the user's" 
consent is irrelevant. Someone who has had information recorded about 
them by a passing device does not have the opportunity to provide that 
consent.

I think this needs to be explicit.

RC