Patent ID: 8676225

Claim:
An information processing device that can communicate with a plurality of wireless communication devices, comprising: a transmission portion that transmits information; an information acquisition portion that acquires, from each of the wireless communication devices, a location information of the wireless communication device, the location information comprising at least one of information that indicates a location of the wireless communication device or a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity of the wireless communication device; a storage portion that stores, in association with arbitrary location information, selective location publish setting information of each wireless communication device according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date; a selection portion that selects from the storage portion the selective location publish setting information that is associated with the location information that was acquired by the information acquisition portion, the selection according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date; and a control portion that controls, in accordance with the selective location publish setting information that was selected by the selection portion, a selective publishing of the location of each wireless communication device, wherein the selective location publish setting information comprises information that expresses a location alias according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date.