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May 20, 2011 09:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2_zNOCAv8aA/EU-Demands-Explicit-Geo-Location-Permissions
EU Demands Explicit Geo-Location Permissions
judgecorp writes "Apple, Google and employers are already contravening new European Union rules that will require companies to get explicit permission from users before any geo-location data can be used to track them, whether for the purposes of targeted advertising or monitoring employee behavior. This could be the start of the next big privacy argument. The hopes of companies planning to use geo-location data to push products and services to mobile device users have taken a beating in the European Union, following a pronouncement from the European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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