[thelist] wireless thinking aloud

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Thu Mar 29 07:32:18 CST 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>people with a wireless device (pad, phone) will pretty soon be localized,
>right?

Yes

> So if they go to a (wireless)site, would that site know where they
>are?

Possibly. The network will know, but there should be a range
of security and privacy policy agreements in place before sites could
get hold of it.

> Isn't that the premises of location based services.

Yes

>If so, that would open lots of cool possibilities for websites....

Yes. And lots of scary ones too.

>Would location based tracking be worldwide?

Yes, where worldwide is defined by "anywhere where there's
network coverage for your phone". Centres of population, for sure.
Rural areas? Probably not.

Cheers
Martin


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