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Computing News | Wireless location tracking draws privacy questions
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 09:18 Wednesday, 17th May 2006 GMT
Source: ZDNet News
Wireless products that can do everything from tracking your children to finding you a nearby date this weekend seem to fall outside the scope of federal privacy laws, and that may need to change, an industry group said.
At a panel discussion hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, which aims at informing legislative aides, a wireless industry representative on Tuesday said he's concerned that many products that use geographic location technology, such as those found in cars, aren't being held to the same standards as traditional wireless phone carriers.
"We're going to see in the next year pretty much all of the national wireless carriers deploy handsets that work on licensed commercial spectrum and also work off Wi-Fi hot spots," said Michael Altschul, general counsel to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), an international trade association representing wireless carriers, suppliers and providers of wireless services.
"I don't want a customer who starts a call in a Starbucks using a Wi-Fi hot spot, then steps outside and the call is handed off to a commercial mobile service, to have different privacy expectations."
Altschul was referring to Section 222 of the Communications Act, added in 1999, which specifies that "telecommunications carriers" must adhere to certain safeguards of their subscribers' personal information and call records.
Reacting to concerns over a new federal requirement that cell phone carriers install geographic-tracking technology in order for 911 dispatchers to pinpoint their calls, CTIA in 2000 petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (click for PDF) to adopt new privacy rules dealing specifically with geographic location information.
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