can an inter-disciplinary research community on location privacy be successful?
The newly starting MODAP project (www.modap.org), funded by EU FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies Programme with nearly one million euro funding for three years, aims to coordinate and boost the research activities in the intersection of mobility, data mining, and privacy. The key challenge is to gather an interdisciplinary community of people including, lawyers, psychologists, computer scientists, geographers, and end-users. This panel discusses opportunities, challenges and risks.
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