The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

S2E20: Location Privacy, Data Brokers & Privacy Datasets with Jeff Jockisch

Jul 5, 2023

43:09

This week’s guest is Jeff Jockisch, Partner at Avantis Privacy and co-host of the weekly LinkedIn Live event, Your Bytes = Your Rights, a town hall-style discussion around ownership, digital rights, and privacy. Jeff is currently a data privacy researcher at PrivacyPlan, where he focuses specifically on privacy data sets.

In this conversation, we delve into current risks to location privacy; how precise location data really is; how humans can have more control over their data; and what organizations can do to protect humans’ data privacy.

For access to a dataset of data resources and privacy podcasts, check out Jeff’s robust database — the Shifting Privacy Left podcast was recently added.

Topics Covered:

Jeff’s approach to creating privacy data sets and what “gaining insight into the privacy landscape” means.
How law enforcement can be a threat actor to someone’s privacy, using the example of Texas' abortion law
Whether data brokers are getting exact location information or are inferring someone’s location.
Why geolocation brokers had not considered themselves data brokers.
Why anonymization is insufficient for location privacy.
How 'consent theater' coupled with location leakage is an existential threat to our privacy.
How people can protect themselves from having data collected and sold by data and location brokers.
Why apps permissions should be more specific when notifying users about personal data collection and use.
How Apple and Android devices treat Mobile Ad ID (MAID) differently and how that affects your historical location data.
How companies can protect data by using broader geolocation information instead of precise geolocation information.
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