Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein

The risk of WiFi Tracking has been well recognized. New trends in the automotive industry promise a rapid growth of the number of mobile access points (and thus affected data subjects). While tracking of WiFi-users has been recognized as high potential risk, the risk has already been realized at large scale today for users of mobile access points.  In particular, two major location services are already operational today across Europe and systematically report the locations of a large percentage of mobile access points to central collection points controlled by entities outside of Europe.  Considering the high data protection risk inherent in location tracking of individuals, this raises the need for mitigation to new levels of urgency.