BlueSky Positioning delivers world’s first end-to-end security and privacy protection for location based services
BlueSky Positioning today announced its A-GPS (Assisted-Global Positioning System) technology for SIM products now provides full end-to-end security. BlueSky Positioning’s A-GPS SIM protects the sensitive location information from SIM card to SIM card (or smart card), critical for applications like child tracking, asset tracking and emergency service call pinpointing. These innovative security techniques provide the strongest possible security and privacy protection for mobile phone users and also for operators and other parties providing Location Based Services (LBS) and applications with A-GPS SIM technology.
For the first time, Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) security, including encryption, authentication and authorisation, has been used to control access to a GPS receiver and to the mobile phone location, resolving privacy and security issues. In the A-GPS SIM, the USIM security processor acts as both a physical and logical firewall to the GPS receiver. This provides unparalleled security, ranging from access control and data encryption to data signature and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), to protect users and service providers.
