Abstract
Realisation of the Ubicomp vision in the real world
creates significant threats to personal privacy due to
constant information collection by numerous tiny sensors,
active information exchange over short and long
distances, long-term storage of large quantities of data,
and reasoning based on collected and stored data. An
analysis of more than 100 Ubicomp scenarios, however,
shows that applications are often proposed without
considering privacy issues, whereas existing
privacyenhancing technologies mainly have been developed
for networked applications and, thus, are not always
applicable to emerging applications for smart spaces and
personal devices, especially because the users and their
data are not spatially separated in such applications. A
partial solution to the problem of users' privacy
protection could be to allow users to control how their
personal data can be used. The authors' experience with
mobile phone data collection, nevertheless, suggests that
when users give their consent for the data collection,
they don't fully understand the possible privacy
implications. Thus, application developers should pay
attention to privacy protection; otherwise, such problems
could result in users not accepting Ubicomp applications.
This chapter suggests guidelines for estimating threats
to privacy, depending on real world application settings
and the choice of technology; and guidelines for the
choice and development of technological safeguards
against privacy threats.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Future Paradigms and Directions |
Editors | Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui, Zakaria Maamar, George M. Giaglis |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | IGI Publishing |
Chapter | 12 |
Pages | 316-347 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-59904-842-0 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-59904-840-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
MoE publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |