GSM phone location can also be used to track other people than kids too. Friends, parents even pets. In Finland you have to give your permission if you want your cell phone to be located and who may use that information. Only exception are the parents "spying" on their kids.
Old people (with perhaps with dementia)can be located if they leave their homes. Injured hikers can be tracked from the woods. Some operators and phone makers provide phones for hunting dogs and other pets. If you can not find your dog, you can phone to it, the phone answers automatically and sends its location info to you.
Also games may utilize location info. Like It's Alive's BotFighters. (warning, site did not work very well with Mozilla Firebird, designed for IE.) See also their press release.
Ads are not the only possible way to utilize the location info. There are many other possible services too.
In Europe there are few cases ongoing, where a company Fixtures Marketing (who decides when and where the football (soccer) games are played) wants money from gambling comapnies because they are using the publicly available information about the games.
The Hogsta Domstolen seeks a preliminary ruling on the following questions:
1. In assessing whether a database is the result of a "substantial investment" within the meaning of Article 7(1) of Council Directive 96/9/EC of 11 march 1996 on the legal protection of databases (the "database directive") can the maker of a database be credited with an investment primarily intended to create something which is independent of the database and which thus does not merely concern the "obtaining, verification or presentation" of the contents of the database? If so, does it make any difference if the investment or part of it nevertheless constitutes a prerequisite for the database?
AB Svenska Spel contends in this case that Fixtures Marketing Limited's investment is primarily concerned with the drawing up of the fixture lists for the English and Scottish football leagues and not with the databases where the data are stored. Fixtures marketing Limited, for its part, argues that it is not possible to distinguish the work for the purpose of planning the game and that the purpose of drawing up the fixture lists.
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GSM phone location can also be used to track other people than kids too. Friends, parents even pets. In Finland you have to give your permission if you want your cell phone to be located and who may use that information. Only exception are the parents "spying" on their kids.
Old people (with perhaps with dementia)can be located if they leave their homes. Injured hikers can be tracked from the woods. Some operators and phone makers provide phones for hunting dogs and other pets. If you can not find your dog, you can phone to it, the phone answers automatically and sends its location info to you.
Also games may utilize location info. Like It's Alive's BotFighters. (warning, site did not work very well with Mozilla Firebird, designed for IE.) See also their press release. Ads are not the only possible way to utilize the location info. There are many other possible services too.
In Europe there are few cases ongoing, where a company Fixtures Marketing (who decides when and where the football (soccer) games are played) wants money from gambling comapnies because they are using the publicly available information about the games.
The Hogsta Domstolen seeks a preliminary ruling on the following questions:
1. In assessing whether a database is the result of a "substantial investment" within the meaning of Article 7(1) of Council Directive 96/9/EC of 11 march 1996 on the legal protection of databases (the "database directive") can the maker of a database be credited with an investment primarily intended to create something which is independent of the database and which thus does not merely concern the "obtaining, verification or presentation" of the contents of the database? If so, does it make any difference if the investment or part of it nevertheless constitutes a prerequisite for the database?
AB Svenska Spel contends in this case that Fixtures Marketing Limited's investment is primarily concerned with the drawing up of the fixture lists for the English and Scottish football leagues and not with the databases where the data are stored. Fixtures marketing Limited, for its part, argues that it is not possible to distinguish the work for the purpose of planning the game and that the purpose of drawing up the fixture lists.
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