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Mobile GPS and Web Server
by Andrew McCaskey
Monday, 09 February 2009 22:17
Two Mobile Apps
Two mobile app topics in the news today – for different reasons. First, the announcement concerning the iPhone as a mobile web server, and secondly the mobile privacy issue being considered in the Georgia legislature concerning GPS tracking.
The Georgia case involves the notion that automated systems of surveillance should be held to a higher privacy standard than traditional physical observation. Since the early 1980’s it’s been ruled that law enforcement should be permitted to slap a GPS tracker on any vehicle that was on public display or could be observed publicly. This presumably applied to vehicles parked on the street or in a public garage, but protected vehicles parked on private property. Some are now advocating a closer look, saying that the ability to observe 24×7 without further exposure is significantly different than the physical tail of officers following a citizen with probably risk of observation by the target that, as a practical matter, greatly reduced the length of time and conditions that permitted observation.
The other news – from the Japan version of the App Store for the Apple iPhone – an app that enables the iPhone to become a functional web server – hosting web pages and traffic.
Combine the two, and you have a very interesting capability: a self tracker that makes it’s position known on a web page that it itself hosts. For good or for ill, once again, the Genie is out of the Bottle.
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