Xypoint Position Paper

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Xypoint Position Paper

• Mario G. Tapia Will Cousins
• mtapia_at_xypoint.com wcousins_at_xypoint.com
• Xypoint
• 2200 Alaskan Way, 2nd Floor
• Seattle WA. 98121
• 1 206 674 1000

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The needs of our company in the field of privacy
protection.

• 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.

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General expectations on the final outputs of the
workshop

• Xypoint's general expectations on the final
  output of the workshop are
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• 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.

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General perspectives on the privacy challenges
raised by mobile Web services.

• 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.
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• Disclosure of location practices should be known
  to the subscriber.
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• Privacy practices should be independent of
  whether the location is on the network or on the
  handset.
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General perspectives on the privacy challenges
raised by mobile Web services.

• 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.
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• Privacy issues vary regionally by culture and in
  law 23. 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.

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References

•  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.

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Thank you!