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Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information
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Abstract Today almost any kind of User Generated Content (UGC) can be situated within
a geographic context. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can include
many types of UGC, such as georeferenced photographs, social media and text,
geographic data themselves, etc. There are legal, privacy and eth... view more
Today almost any kind of User Generated Content (UGC) can be situated within
a geographic context. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can include
many types of UGC, such as georeferenced photographs, social media and text,
geographic data themselves, etc. There are legal, privacy and ethical issues raised
by VGI, and at present these are not very well studied or understood despite the
rise in popularity of VGI. This chapter will discuss, investigate and define some of the most prominent issues related to the legal, privacy and ethics topic within
VGI. The chapter argues that these issues are not well understood by all of the
actors in VGI, and in particular by the producers of this information as well as
the users or consumers of this new data source. Creating a better understanding
of these issues will be very important in the future development and evolution
of VGI in society.... view less
Keywords
data protection; ethics; information; geography; legal factors; data storage; data access; privacy; citizen; social responsibility; bourgeois science; citizens' participation; cartography
Classification
Law
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Data privacy; ethics; legal issues; Volunteered Geographic Information; User Generated Content; UGC
Collection Title
Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
Editor
Foody, Giles; See, Linda; Fritz, Steffen; Mooney, Peter; Olteanu-Raimond, Ana-Maria; Fonte, Cidália Costa; Antoniou, Vyron
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
City
London
Page/Pages
p. 119-135
ISBN
978-1-911529-17-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed