Children and teenager today already use smartphones and especially game apps like Pokémon Go, social apps like TikTok and Instagram or travel apps like Google Maps. In order to make […]
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Student assistant wanted
The Situated Computing Lab (sitcom) at the Institute of Geoinformatics at the WWU Münster has a vacancy for a student assistant in the SIMPORT project as soon as possible. The […]
What does the constant monitoring by artificial intelligence mean for our privacy? Do we need a new regulation of data protection? How do you protect your privacy on the internet? […]
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Ethics-by-Design with personas
In the SIMPORT project we follow an ethics-by-design approach. Ethics-by-Design as a method aims to deal with ethical issues visibly and comprehensibly during the design process. In doing so, all […]
In many countries, informed consent is required before a service provider can collect personal data from a user. For location-based services (LBS), this applies in particular to personal location information, […]
Many users are not aware that deep conclusions about their lives can be drawn on the basis of their location history. This occurs when apps not only query the location […]
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Developer Workshop Experience
Location data is potentially highly sensitive information that allows deep conclusions to be drawn about individuals – which is why we are looking for different ways to strengthen people’s digital […]
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User Workshop Experience
How do people feel about location information and privacy, and what are their concepts, worries and issues related to using apps which ask for permission to access location information? Which […]
The GPS location history of a smartphone can be used to draw deep conclusions about users. Most smartphones pass on this information by default without explaining the risks to users […]
With SIMPORT, we want to enable users to manage their own location information on their mobile devices. In order to find out where to start, it is first necessary to […]