This project critically examines the increasingly pervasive role of location metadata (or geodata) in Australian smartphone practices and cultures and the implications this has for users, industry, and public administration. With near-ubiquitous levels of smartphone use in Australia, digital media have become integrated within everyday lives. These services, however, rely on access to an individual’s location, raising privacy and cybersecurity concerns over this sensitive datapoint. The project will deliver online and open resources to enhance public understanding of geodata and geoprivacy, as well as industry and policy recommendations that address the crucial issue of ‘location awareness’ in everyday digital media use.
Project website: https://research.qut.edu.au/geoprivacy/
Project team
Investigators
- Professor Peta Mitchell
- Dr Tim Highfield
- Professor Marcus Foth
- Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch
- Prof. Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine (PI)
- Dr Agnieszka Leszczynski, Western University, Canada (PI)
Project funding
- ARC Discovery Project (2018-2021)
