System for controlling access to localization data arising from mobile devices, such as mobile phones, such that different user applications have different access authorizations and phone user privacy is protected

摘要

System comprises a first communication interface (14) with access authority to localization data (4), a database (18) containing authorization parameters defining access conditions for user applications, means for updating recorded authorization parameters, a second communication interface (12) with a source of messages corresponding to requests for localization data from a user application (2) and means for filtering requests for localization requests according to authorization parameters.