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Usable Privacy in Location-Based Services: The Need for a Regulatory Framework

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Facing the last decades of information technology, the importance of ‘usable privacy and security’ (UPS) increased significantly. Previous studies have uncovered a tremendous gap in UPS-related research, especially concerning location-based services (LBS). This contribution aims to reduce this gap by identifying factors leading to a more user-centric design of LBS. It relies on guided interviews with international experts either with a scientific or an entrepreneurial background. The findings support solutions equipping the user with more control of owned data, thus ensuring more self-determination and decision-making authority affecting personal information. The study makes use of a qualitative content analysis in order to identify relevant factors that reveal which data security-related aspects are important by designing location-based services. The findings lead to two key outcomes: Firstly, the implementation of easier to use data security tools in applications based on LBS often comes with an information overload affecting the user. Secondly, a regulatory framework for third party vendors, users, and providers to address the lack of knowledge for user-friendly LBS turns out to be the key requirement for successful implementation of UPS.

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Beringer, B., Uphaus, P.O., Rau, H. (2021). Usable Privacy in Location-Based Services: The Need for a Regulatory Framework. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86960-1_40

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