Geolocation

Despite claims that the internet is necessarily and invariably borderless there's substantial expert support for claims that it will be possible to develop geolocation technologies that enable law enforcement agencies (and businesses) to locate an activity within a particular part of cyberspace.

Like activity offline, that geolocation won't work in all instances. The technologies pose a range of policy issues (for example privacy) and operational problems. They've been dismissed by some experts. They've also received cautious support from major figures such as Vint Cerf.

One example is the 1996 paper by Dorothy Denning & Peter MacDoran on Location-Based Authentication: Grounding Cyberspace for Better Security. 

We'll be adding more detailed pointers shortly, with a discussion of particular technologies and issues.


 



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