The emerging ethics of humancentric GPS tracking and monitoring

International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Michael, Katina ^a   McNamee, Andrew ^a   Michael, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TRACKING (POSITION);

LOCATIONBASED SERVICES (LBS); PERSONAL LOCATORS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 36049007461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMB.2006.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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