Location Privacy and Location-Aware Computing
Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik · 2006
Despite the undoubted future potential of location-aware computing, location awareness also presents inherent future threats, perhaps the most important of which is location privacy. Most people would not feel comfortable if regularly updated information about their current location were made public, any more than we would feel comfortable if information about our home address, telephone number, age or medical history were public. Our precise location uniquely identifies us, more so than our names or even our genetic profile.