Spatial Telemetry Compliance & Privacy Governance Review

Purpose of the Compliance Review

Location data represents one of the most sensitive categories of personal information under modern privacy legislation, including the Thailand Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA B.E. 2562), GDPR, and the mobile operating system guidelines enforced by Apple and Google. Indiscriminate collection of continuous background GPS coordinates creates substantial legal liability, app store rejection risks, and user distrust.

The Spatial Telemetry Compliance & Privacy Governance Review provides a thorough, objective assessment of your application’s location handling practices. We evaluate whether your collection adheres to the principle of data minimization, whether spatial coordinates can be safely truncated or binned, and whether user consent mechanisms match actual background data behavior.

Core Areas Evaluated

1. Spatial Minimization & Coordinate Precision Profiling: We determine whether your business use case genuinely requires 5-meter GPS precision or if Geohash-6 (approx. 1.2km) or municipality-level resolution adequately satisfies functionality while reducing regulatory liability.

2. Background Polling & Wake Trigger Justification: We review OS-level background location entitlements (ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION on Android, Always Allow on iOS) to ensure all background tracking is strictly necessary and compliant with app store store review criteria.

3. Data Retention & Aggregation Boundary Verification: We inspect how raw latitude/longitude coordinates are converted into aggregated spatial clusters or purged after operational utility expires, preventing the accumulation of high-risk continuous user mobility trails.

4. Consent Notice & Privacy Policy Alignment: We verify that your user-facing privacy notices and in-app location permission prompts accurately disclose the frequency, purpose, and third-party transmission of spatial telemetry.

Key Deliverables

• Spatial Privacy Diagnostic Matrix: A line-by-line review of all location collection points, SDK dependencies, and data retention windows.
• Coordinate Truncation & Differential Privacy Recommendations: Concrete algorithmic guidelines for blurring or binning coordinates prior to cloud transmission.
• App Store Policy Readiness Checklist: Verification that location prompts comply with the latest Apple Human Interface Guidelines and Google Play Location Permissions policies.

Turnaround & Investment

• Timeline: 10 business days from ingestion of architecture documents and permission flows.
• Standard Assessment Fee: 85,000 THB for single-platform mobile applications; 110,000 THB for dual iOS/Android codebases.