Four Billion Little Brothers? Privacy, mobile phones, and ubiquitous data collection

摘要

While lawyers and social scientists work on structural changes to help ensure privacy in participatory sensing, many of the initial and critically important steps toward privacy protection will be up to application developers. By innovating to put participants first, we can create systems that respect individuals' needs to control sensitive data. We can also augment people's ability to make sense of such granular data, and engage participants in making decisions about that data over the long term. Through attention to such principles, developers will help to ensure that four billion little brothers are not watching us. Instead, participatory sensing can have a future of secure, willing, and engaged participation.