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The growth of mobile digital communication devices has seen a corresponding growth in the data created byusers in the course of their mobile communications. The ease with which such data - including sensitive timedependentlocation information - can be collected and stored raises clear data protection and concerns. Thevalue such data offers to both law enforcement agencies and the private sector has complicated regulatoryresponses to such data protection concerns. This has lead to the contradictory situation in which mobiledata is used by the law enforcement agencies and the private sector to identify individual users, yet thissame information is not considered to be 'personal data'.
Author(s): Green N, Smith S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Surveillance and Society
Year: 2004
Volume: 1
Issue: 4
Pages: 573-587
Online publication date: 01/09/2002
Date deposited: 08/06/2017
ISSN (electronic): 1477-7847
Publisher: Surveillance Studies Network
URL: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/3337