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Confidential carbon commuting: exploring a privacy-sensitive architecture for incentivising 'greener' commuting

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Chris Elsmore,

Anil Madhavapeddy,

Ian Leslie,

Amir ChaudhryAuthors Info & Claims

MPM '12: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2181196.2181201

Published: 10 April 2012 Publication History

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We discuss the problem of building a user-acceptable infrastructure for a large organisation that wishes to measure its employees' travel-to-work carbon footprint, based on the gathering of high resolution geolocation data on employees in a privacy-sensitive manner. This motivated the construction of a distributed system of personal containers in which individuals record fine-grained location information into a private data-store which they own, and from which they can trade portions of data to the organisation in return for specific benefits. This framework can be extended to gather a wide variety of personal data and facilitates the transformation of private information into a public good, with minimal and assessable loss of individual privacy.

This is currently a work in progress. We report on the hardware, software and social aspects of piloting this scheme on the University of Cambridge's experimental cloud service, as well as contrasting it to a traditional centralised model.

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MPM '12: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility

April 2012

55 pages

ISBN:9781450311632

DOI:10.1145/2181196

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Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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