User Privacy
With great power comes great responsibility. With the great power to locate a user comes the greatest responsibility
of protecting it from unscrupulous use endangering the security of the user. Location can enable you to provide the
user with multitude of facilities like finding nearby interesting places, friends around and user profile based ad
push. But the need to protect this sensitive user information is much important. SmartGeo platform provides a horde
of features catering to the needs of user privacy. Our product vision has enabled us to think most of the scenarios
and care is taken at multiple levels so that the user is fully aware of the risks involved. Some of the features
enabling this are -
- Privacy Rules
SmartGeo platform supports configurable privacy rules for honoring subscriber's preference of sharing his
location
across all application.
- Time based
- Geography based
- Location Sharing Policies
SmartGeo platform supports configurable privacy policies for honoring subscriber's preference of sharing his
location with respect to specific applications. Subscriber can choose to make his/her location available for
certain application and not for other applications. For example an employee can choose not to have his location
available to Work Force Management after work hours.
- Informative alerts of location broadcasting
- Permission controlled location sharing
- Intelligent permission defaults