RE: [xml-dev] XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut

[Leigh Dodds <ldodds@ingenta.com>]

I suspect the answer is the same reason why you have to
identify where you are to a WAP service giving local information.

Privacy.

Who gets to know where you are, where you're going, and
where you've been?

I have an inkling that there's some legislation on this in the
UK at least, but don't have any references to hand.

There's also some big commercial benefits to this information
(which probably adds to the danger).

L.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Norton [mailto:francis@redrice.com]
> Sent: 17 October 2001 20:59
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> Cc: Joshua Allen; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML for Video, Pizza Shops & TakeOut
>
>
> At the risk of getting off-topic, can anyone tell me why we have purple
> traffic cameras littering UK roads to provide traffic-flow news to
> mobile phone users, when you could simply monitor the flow of mobile
> phones from one road-phone cell to the next?
>
> Francis.
>
> "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> >
> > It is there.  Check out the requirements for cell phone
> > systems and 911 services. Federally mandated too.
> >
> > The full potential is limited by some standards still
> > not being fully in place and the cost of creating
> > and maintaining the metadata.   We could apply the
> > HumanML schema concepts and get quite a bit of progress if
> > the users are willing to fill in the forms and
> > grant permissions.  This is limited only by bandwidth
> > and the will to register (like Hailstorm -
> > it depends on identity services).
> >
> > len
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com]
> >
> > Good point; I just tried this with my cellphone, but all of the
> > location-based services that find Pizza joints (like go2.com) require
> > that you type in a ZIP code or something first.  That is pretty lame,
> > considering that the WAP provider should be able to at least give a good
> > guess based on source address of my device.  I mean, the chances are
> > pretty low that someone in Washington would be connecting to a comm
> > tower in California...  This is such a seemingly possible thing I wonder
> > why it's not already there?  Of course, comm station is not the same as
> > pinpointing an exact city block, but still interesting.
> >
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