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Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech – WIRED (Sidney Fussell | March 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics on April 1, 2021
Keywords: Beneficence, Consent, Good practice, Institutional responsibilities, Privacy, Protection for participants, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On March 25, 2021

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AS SMARTPHONE APPS track our every move, a group of technologists in the US and UK this week offered guidelines for the ethical uses of location data. Leaders of the American Geographical Society and Britain’s mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey, want companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users.

Agreeing and accepting when we first open an app may be automatic, just so we can access the desired features.  But do we always think about the privacy implications? This WIRED story reports on a call by a group for guidance for guidance to help shape the ethical use of location tracking.

Chris Tucker, chairman of the American Geographical Society, a private research and advocacy group, says the Locus Charter aims to capture the potential benefits and risks of a world of invisible real-time tracking: from your weather app to the GPS system in your car, or at an international level, state-supported contact-tracing apps that keep tabs on people worldwide.

“We all had to start grappling with Covid and the ethical implications of contact tracing, which is all about location apps and geospatial data,” Tucker says. “We realized there is no international set of guidelines or principles for implementing location tech. It’s a big void.”

Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users.

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