Penn State Dickinson Law Dickinson Law IDEAS Faculty Scholarly Works Faculty Scholarship 2019 The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges Anne T. McKenna Penn State Dickinson Law,
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[email protected]. The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges Anne Toomey McKenna,*i Amy C. Gaudion,**ii Jenni L. Evans***iii ABSTRACT Strava, a popular social media platform and mobile app like Facebook but specifically designed for athletes, posts a “heatmap” with consensually-obtained details about users’ workouts and geolocation. Strava’s heatmap depicts aggregated data of user location and movement by synthesizing GPS satellite data points and movement data from users’ smart devices together with satellite imagery. In January of 2018, a 20- year-old student tweeted that Strava’s heatmap revealed U.S.