Users should be able to disable the precise location determination at any time without disconnecting their device from the network. Location information should only be made available to providers of value added services where the user has given his informed consent. Consent may be restricted to a single transaction or certain providers of value added services. The user must be able to access, correct and delete his or her preference data also in cases where the preferences of the user are not stored on the mobile device, but within the network. The creation of movement profiles by telecommunications service providers and providers of value added services should be strictly forbidden by law unless where necessary for the provision of a certain service and based on the user's informed, unambiguous consent.
Location data is a highly sensitive category of information.
Access, use and disclosure of such information should be subject to the same or similar controls as for content data protected by telecommunications secrecy. Wherever possible, mobile network operators should not communicate location data together with personally identifiable information about the user to providers of value added services. Instead, pseudonymous information should be used. Any location data should be deleted when no longer necessary for the provision of the service. A provider must not make the rendering of a service or the terms of the service conditional upon the consent of the user to the effect that his or her personal localisation data may be processed where such data are not necessary for the provision of the service.