Patent ID: 8150419

Claim:
A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal based, at least in part, on the following: a reception of a location service request from a location service client; a sending, via a packet-switched network, to a user equipment to be located a privacy request prompting the user of said equipment to accept or reject the specific location service request, the privacy request being sent directly to the user equipment so that elements belonging to a group comprising a gateway support node, a service support node, a mobile switching centre, a home location register, a radio network controller, and a base station controller, are not involved in a signalling exchange of the privacy request; a reception, via the packet-switched network, of a privacy response; and a determination to provide the location information to said requesting client, if said location service request is accepted in said privacy response, and rejecting the location service request otherwise.