Team 2:Kevin Clark,

Mark Christman,

Garrett Dauch,Whitney D. (??)

Wireless carriers will implement GPS (Global Positioning System) technology into phones so 18-24 year olds can “track” where one another are.

•Sprint Nextel Corp = hundreds of thousands of customers signed up already

•Verizon Wireless = offering to all 65 million customers

•AT&T = Still very uncertain about security of their customers

The service is called Loopt, designed by 22 year old Sam Altman• Created the

application as an undergraduate at Stanford University.

Carriers have used GPS for driving directions, etc. before, but have been hesitant to use it for tracking users’ whereabouts (privacy and liability)• Stalkers• Creepers• Annoying people you just don’t want around

With safeguards present, profit potential outweighs risks•Privacy is of primary importance•Loopt’s safeguards: Users can only be linked to network of friends who have also bought service

Users always can temporarily disable tracking Under 14 can’t sign up New users receive notices / reminders for first two weeks (annoying?)

Appeals to 18-24 year old age group which already enjoys sharing personal info to masses

•AIM•Facebook •Myspace•Blogging

Sprint allows one person to trace at least 10 different cell phone users simultaneously

Sprint began offering GPS tracking services to Boost Mobile (subsidiary) customers in November 2006. • Became more widespread by July 2007

Must go through long list of disclaimers to sign up for service• Sprint: “We are not responsible for Loopt;

use at your own risk.”

Three different views on the issue:

• Invasion of Privacy

• Employee-to-Employee Communication

• Safety of User

Created by Pelago Inc. Earlier Version

• Requires users to enter in locations manually

New Version• Will be completed and used by a wireless

carrier within the year Pinpoint Location Services

Yahoo! Inc.• oneConnect

Verizon Wireless / Vodafone Group• Most likely to use the Loopt application

AT&T• Still making privacy #1 concern on issue

The U.S. is ahead of Europe and Japan… for the moment.

GyPSii• Created by GeoSolutions BV based in

Amersterdam• Being offered to China Unicom just in time

for Olympic Games to start NTT DoCoMo

• Japanese based company that allows parents to monitor their children when their children have GPS equipped “Kid’s Phones”

Lobbying in Congress• CTIA – The Wireless Association

“Consumer privacy, data security, and user safety must be key priorities for any service that deals with location information, and even more so for services that share that information among customers.”

http://www.ctia.org/content/index.cfm/AID/10983

• Loopt Lobbying to "keep from getting legislated out of

business."

Loopt added the following features to its service last June:

• Made privacy controls easier to find• Ability to throw ‘false signs’• Perhaps a speed dial button to authorities?

Should Loopt be forced to turn over real-time, location-tracking services in police investigations?

What do prosecutors need when it comes to wire tapping into location-tracking services?• Subpoenas?• ‘Probable Cause’?

Whitney D. will take your questions now.