'Location Privacy'—where do we stand?

With introducing Global Positioning System(GPS),one of position determination technologies,into non-military area from military locating utilities in United States,it brings both positive and negative effect into our society simultaneously.On the one hand,the location data from these new tracking and positioning system are becoming universally available for commercial,government,educational,scientific and non-profit purposes to improve people’s daily life.On the other hand,the application of GPS also raises some impact to personal location privacy,like everything else in this world which would bring us goodness invariably carries the ability to cause harm.In this article,I will briefly talk about the advantages of GPS tracking technology firstly.Then,I will analysis the problems raised by the application of GPS technology in details,such as the concerns about personal location privacy,the moral dilemma and the right dispute when using GPS tracking children or automobile.Finally,I will introduce some safeguards which can minimize the conflicts between the applications of GPS and location privacy information protection.