Allow users to anonymize GPS location

[rmackay9]

According to Paul Riseborough some users are reluctant to upload their log files because of privacy concerns around having their GPS location exposed. DroneShare could get around this by allowing an anonymize feature as part of the upload.

Some suggested locations are:

1. Lat, Lon, Alt shifted to zero (i.e. over the horn of africa)
2. Area 51
3. Greenwich

[billbonney]

There's plenty of space in Greenwich Park https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Greenwich+Park/@51.4769032,0.0011924,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x0e0b4893b3675cd0?hl=en

[jason4short]

I wouldn't use 0,0 since it looks like a logic failure. Also, it's hard to understand scale when looking at a mission over water.
Greenwich seems best since it's easier to interpret.
Jason

On Dec 22, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Randy Mackay [email protected] wrote:

According to Paul Riseborough some users are reluctant to upload their log files because of privacy concerns around having their GPS location exposed. DroneShare could get around this by allowing an anonymize feature as part of the upload.

Some suggested locations are:

1. Lat, Lon, Alt shifted to zero (i.e. over the horn of africa)
2. Area 51
3. Greenwich

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[billbonney]

Or you have an option to specify a number of locations to offset your mission to? default greenwich but other sites possible.

[geeksville]

sounds good - we'll add something like this. btw - users can set privacy
on flights either on a default or per flight basis.

On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 10:38:38 AM Bill Bonney [email protected]
wrote:

Or you have an option to specify a number of locations to offset your
mission to? default greenwich but other sites possible.

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[mrpollo]

First I'm glad you guys chime in to discuss this issue, this is something we have discussed in the past "internally" and were reluctant to pursue due to privacy I think @geeksville brought this idea of shifting location another area but then presented a counter theory about how to be able to get location again through some other ways (which i cant remember right now).

Personally I'm worried that the value of DroneShare decreases for those missions
and so would like to ask this few questions:

1. What are the most valuable features of DroneShare as it is right now for you?
2. What type of privacy are you expecting from DroneShare right now, and in the future?
3. What would be a good use case of shifting location? if we already have privacy settings in missions and vehicles how would you differentiate its usage

[phelpsw]

I think this is an excellent suggestion. To avoid the possible logical problem of 0,0, consider instead 1,1 as an origin lat/lon.

Perhaps project onto an alternate map consisting of concentric circles and/or a grid at color coded distances from the origin. I agree that it is difficult to get a sense of scale over featureless areas like water or area 51. Projecting over a real place like Greenwich would just be confusing. Furthermore most of us are not familiar with the terrain of Greenwich.