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Ted Claypoole Discusses Geo-Location Privacy Issues
August 17, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Recent advances in technology have made individual privacy issues much more complicated. Cell phones, GPS systems and surveillance cameras.
Womble Carlyle attorney Ted Claypoole discusses geo-location privacy in an in-depth interview with Nymity News, a leading privacy and data protection publication.
“Many of our most basic human rights are grounded in privacy and anonymity. When you can be tracked and surveilled, this privacy disappears,” Claypoole said. In the case of geo-location privacy, he said advances in technology have outpaced legal efforts to secure privacy rights.
Ted Claypoole focuses his practice on information security, privacy, consumer data treatment and contingency planning matters. He leads data breach incident response teams in the financial, information processing, retail and software industries. A frequent author and speaker on privacy and data security issues, Claypoole practices in the firm’s Charlotte office.
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