The best solution would be to provide consumers with the right to opt out of having their personal information disclosed to a third party. In other words, we need legislation that would prohibit a credit provider from being able to force a consumer to agree that they can disclose personal information they obtain from the credit application to a third party credit bureau or otherwise. If they can't get the information in the first place then we don't have to worry about what they are going to do with it and how well they will protect it.
I first heard of this idea a while ago. In my view, the privacy concerns that have been raised relate more to the mechanics of the implementation rather than the technique. The cellular providers can already track each user's approximate location. All that we're talking about here is using that information, in real time, to extrapolate traffic congestion. So long as the data is not stored, and is kept anonymous, it should not raise privacy concerns.
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Maybe the real purpose isn't so much to protect it from a technical perspective, as it is to be able to obtain protection under the DMCA.
The best solution would be to provide consumers with the right to opt out of having their personal information disclosed to a third party. In other words, we need legislation that would prohibit a credit provider from being able to force a consumer to agree that they can disclose personal information they obtain from the credit application to a third party credit bureau or otherwise. If they can't get the information in the first place then we don't have to worry about what they are going to do with it and how well they will protect it.
I first heard of this idea a while ago. In my view, the privacy concerns that have been raised relate more to the mechanics of the implementation rather than the technique. The cellular providers can already track each user's approximate location. All that we're talking about here is using that information, in real time, to extrapolate traffic congestion. So long as the data is not stored, and is kept anonymous, it should not raise privacy concerns.