# Toward Addressing Location Privacy Issues: New Affiliations with Social and Location Attributes
## 3 Results
### Location Privacy Issues through Geolocation Information and Digital Identities Attributes  
Following the analogy regarding the above attributes of location information and attributes on social identity, users' privacy concerns seem to acquire an additional aspect. In that way, this part of the results refers to the second research question of this study (RQ1b: What are the major scales measuring socio-spatial location privacy concerns?). After completing the review of the aforementioned papers, we can conclude that to the best of our knowledge, there was not a proper scale to measure users' socio-spatial location privacy concerns. Therefore, it is important to note that the focus of the study turned toward identifying the appropriate concepts that such a scale should include, connecting both social identity and geolocation information with location privacy. The interdisciplinarity of the study is discussed in the analogy between notions of social identity and location information in a way that tries to create affiliations in a reciprocal way.  
By projecting location attributes on social identity attributes, we created space for addressing concerns referring to a number of additional characteristics. The notion of face draws not only to one social identity, but also to a dynamic attribute that fluctuates along with attributes of location information, such as where or when. Furthermore, it is important to note that faces are considered to be sensitive and distinctive from one another. More specifically, social actors tend not to share implications of their private life wearing one face to any other potential faces they may put on during the day [2]. For instance, users would be unwilling to share information of their \"Patient\" face when  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c} \hline \hline
**Attributes of Location Information** & **Attributes of Social Identity** \\ \hline Who & Face \\ Where (Space of action) & Frame \\ When & Time \\ Where (Frame) + When & Stage \\ What & Activity/Performance \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 7: Attributes of Location Information and Attributes of Social Identity.  
wearing their \"Employee\" face in a distinct stage, due to potential medical information disclosure in their working environment.  
In any case, combining location and time over a period of time can potentially lead to unveiling repetitive patterns, hence, enabling assumptions concerning user's habits, activity space, and the space of action-sensitive information disclosure. In that way, tracking user's online normativity through past experiences can draw inferences as far as upcoming decisions are concerned. As [2] underlines, a user's activity space places the subject in a context that is descriptive for its social status, geographic location, or future intentions. In addition, [2; 9] tracking users' trajectories can potentially enable reaching conclusions about social status, geographic places, and users' ambitions, thus defining the user as a biographical subject. According to [2], activity space is \"the general space of all variables that can describe a subject's state in the world: emotional state, social position, goals, geographical position, movements, belongings, etc.\" (p. 9). The author also defines activity as \"a trajectory in this space, where behavior can be described as changes in some of these parameters\" (p. 9) [2]. In other words, as location information attributes can be paralleled to users' social attributes, our analysis focuses on how these new affiliations may help designers while setting socially-aware privacy requirements. After completing our review and presenting the results of our analysis, we would like to proceed with the next section of the paper, in which we will try to increase our insight on attributes of location privacy while discussing users' socio-spatial characteristics.