{"id":7660,"date":"2014-05-31T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2014-05-31T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:30:40","slug":"a-week-of-location-data-may-be-an-unreasonable-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-week-of-location-data-may-be-an-unreasonable-search\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Location Data May Be an “Unreasonable Search”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an “Unreasonable Search”<\/h1>\n

When does the simple digital tracking of your location and movements \u2014 the GPS bleeps from most of our smartphones \u2014 start to be truly revealing? When do the data points and inferences that can be drawn from it strongly suggest, say, trips to a psychiatrist, a mosque, an abortion clinic, a strip club or an AIDS treatment center?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n

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The answer, according to\u00a0a new research paper<\/a>, is about a week, when the data portrait of a person becomes sufficiently detailed to qualify as an \u201cunreasonable search\u201d and a potential violation of an individual\u2019s Fourth Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

The research paper, a collaboration of computer scientists and lawyers, wades into the debate over the legal and policing implications of modern data collection and analysis technology. It explores what in legal circles is called the \u201cmosaic theory\u201d of the Fourth Amendment, which essentially states that when linked and analyzed by software, a much richer picture emerges from combined information than from discrete data points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the direct observation,\u201d said Steven M. Bellovin, one of the paper\u2019s co-authors and a computer science professor at Columbia University, a computer security and privacy expert and a former chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. \u201cIt\u2019s what can be inferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SOURCE: NY TIMES BITS BLOGS<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an “Unreasonable Search” When does the simple digital tracking of your location and movements \u2014 the GPS bleeps from most of our smartphones \u2014 start to be truly revealing? When do the data points and inferences that can be drawn from it strongly suggest, say, trips to a psychiatrist,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}