Xypoint
Seattle WA.
98121
+ 1 206 674
1000
Xypoint's
expertise is rooted in being the first in the nation to commercially deploy a
Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) for network operators, thus helping carriers
meet the FCC mandate for wireless E911. Today's platform includes a
TIA/EIA-J-STD 036 compliant MPC while also functioning as a Mobile Location
Server (MLS) used to support commercial location services. The Xypoint MLS
combined with the company's presence manager and privacy manager, was designed
to keep carriers firmly in control of applications used by their subscribers.
It also protects subscribers' privacy.
Xypoint's
general expectations on the final output of the workshop
are:
1) The
acknowledgment that the industry should adopt a privacy profile concept such
as P3P [1] or an extension of P3P to cover mobile
location.
2) The
acknowledgment of a requirement for an international standard for exchanging
customer privacy profiles such as P3P while a subscriber roams about various
networks. This is required for the cases when the client cannot store its
privacy profile locally and must store it on a network.
3) An overall
better understanding of the global issues on privacy.
For location
services to succeed the wireless industry should provide Fair Location
Information Practices [2], so that customers are assured location information
related to their use of any service will be protected by the company privacy
policy.
* Disclosure of
location practices should be known to the subscriber.
* Privacy
practices should be independent of whether the location is on the network or
on the handset.
* The location
data should be secure but also allow for "Push" services, i.e. a subscriber
requests marketing information or coupons when in the proximity of a preferred
retail store.
* Privacy
issues vary regionally by culture and in law [2][3]. In one area of the globe, privacy may have
low importance, where as in another part of the globe, lax control over
privacy would be unacceptable.
[1] Cranor,
Lorrie; Langheinrich, M., Marchiori, M., Presler-Marshall, M., & Reagle,
J., The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification W3C
Working Draft 18 October 2000,
http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/
[2]
Gidari, Albert,
Location Privacy Fair Location Information Practices for Mobile
Commerce, Location Decisions 2000 Application of Location Technology for
the International Commercial Environment Chicago Illinois June 13-14, 2000.
[3] Proposal
of the European Parliament and of the Council Concerning the Processing of
personal Data and the Protection of Privacy in the Electronic Communications
Sector, Commission of the European Communities Brussels, July 12,
2000.