Study On The Civil Protection Of Location Privacy In The LBS Technical Background

Location Based Service means using Mobile Internet to provide users withinformation which relevant to the position value added services. LBS as the support ofour intelligent city and life, brings a lot of convenience for people. However, everycoin has two sides. The safety of the user’s location privacy issue is also growing. Dueto the location privacy as a new thing in the field of law, its protection exist somedifficulties. For example, its legal attribute is difficult to define, tort liability andprotected mode are hard to determine. For this reason, this article would be on thebasis of combing the domestic and foreign relevant theory to solve the locationprivacy protection problem. The article is divided into four chapters, and the maincontent of these chapters is as follows:The first chapter mainly talked about the concept of location privacy. Throughclarifying the relationship between the location privacy and related concepts, theauthor summarized the location privacy protection problem. The second chaptermainly discussed the legal attribute of location privacy. First, considering thecontroversies of the legal attribute of location privacy, the article would analyze thesecontroversies. Second, the article would discuss the relationship between the locationprivacy interests and other related rights. At last, through analyzing the characteristicsof location privacy interests, the location privacy would be defined as the right ofpersonality attributes. The third chapter mainly discussed that how to determine thetort liability. The article would use the elements of the liability as the entry point foranalysis and solving the problem. At last, the author made a conclusion that we shouldbuild a dynamic system to provide a certain difference of protection. The fourthchapter was about the civil protection of location privacy. This chapter was based onthe second chapter’s conclusion that the location privacy is of the right of personalityattributes. By researching the foreign location privacy protection mode andconsidering the legislation present situation, legislation cost, the theory system ofconflict, the article would choose an appropriate protection mode for the locationprivacy.