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Living Maps: New Frontier, Big Brother, or Both?

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Christophe Aguiton Orange Labs
Description Living Maps are generated using the geo-localisation features of social network services, mobile phones and GPS. They offer us a new tool for living in the cities but they also increase our vulnerability to controls. How can we use Living Maps? What rules do we need? And who makes them?
Questions
Answered
  1. What are Living Maps? What is the use of living maps? Examples
  2. What are the technologies used for Living Maps?
  3. Are there existing services based on Living Maps? What kind of Living Maps can we imagine in the future?
  4. What about privacy? Privacy regarding the State or Corporations is one thing, but what about privacy regarding the people close to us, such as parents, partners, etc.?
  5. What set of rules do we need and who has to make them?
Level Intermediate
Category Geolocation
Tags geolocation, maps, Privacy