Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information

Peter Mooney; Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond; Guillaume Touya; Niels Juul; Seraphim Alvanides; Norman Kerle

doi:10.5334/bbf.f

Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information

Peter Mooney, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Guillaume Touya, Niels Juul, Seraphim Alvanides, Norman Kerle

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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 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
Editors	Giles Foody, Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Peter Mooney, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Cidália Costa Fonte, Vyron Antoniou
Publisher	Ubiquity Press
Chapter	6
Pages	119-135
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911529187
ISBN (Print)	9781911529163
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/bbf.f
Publication status	Published - 11 Sept 2017

Keywords

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Legal issues
data privacy
ethics

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Mooney, P., Olteanu-Raimond, A-M., Touya, G., Juul, N., Alvanides, S., & Kerle, N. (2017). Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information. In G. Foody, L. See, S. Fritz, P. Mooney, A-M. Olteanu-Raimond, C. C. Fonte, & V. Antoniou (Eds.), Mapping and the Citizen Sensor (pp. 119-135). Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bbf.f

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Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information. / Mooney, Peter; Olteanu-Raimond, Ana-Maria; Touya, Guillaume et al.
Mapping and the Citizen Sensor. ed. / Giles Foody; Linda See; Steffen Fritz; Peter Mooney; Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond; Cidália Costa Fonte; Vyron Antoniou. Ubiquity Press, 2017. p. 119-135.

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