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All good things come to an end, and SIMPORT is no different: last week, the final meeting of the project took place. All project partners came together to reflect on what we have achieved, to evaluate what went well and…

With the rapid growth of location-based services (LBS) in recent years, location privacy has also received increasing attention as very little (location) information about a person can facilitate deep inferences on very sensitive information. Despite this, many people freely share…

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 them aware of the personal location data that is collected…

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? On WDR5’s 29 August 2022 programme “The Philosophical Radio”, these…

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 participants should be given the opportunity to contribute to the…

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, which can enable deep inferences about a person. As part…

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 once, but also store it permanently. Based on this, habits,…

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 sovereignty with regard to location data as part of the…

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 services do they need or use regularly? What do they…

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 in a comprehensible way– and there is also a lack…