Privacy in (mobile) Telecommunications Services

Privacy Enforcement Embedded in Mobile Services

Next generation mobile services in business-to-employee (B2E) settings put very high demands on the privacy protection features of contextaware, personalization and adaptation enabling technologies. To this end we propose a middle agent framework that allows parties to securely exchange personal or business sensitive contextual information independently of the available networks. In order to de...

On User Privacy in Personalized Mobile Services

New Feature Interactions in Mobile and Multimedia Telecommunications Services

Some previously unidentified sources of feature interaction arising in mobile and multimedia telecommunication systems are presented. We discuss how these feature interactions might be managed by feature developers and service providers. The Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) architecture has proven to be a valuable tool for elucidating these feature interactions, and for describing desirabl...

Privacy-Aware Mobile Services over Road Networks

Consider a mobile client who travels over roads and wishes to receive location-based services (LBS) from untrusted service providers. How might the user obtain such services without exposing her private position information? Meanwhile, how could the privacy protection mechanism incur no disincentive, e.g., excessive computation or communication cost, for any service provider or mobile user to p...

Guest editorial: location-centric privacy in mobile services

Individual location of users is an enabling factor in a variety of mobile applications, such as location-based services (LBS) and participatory sensing. LBS provide users with valuable information that is relevant to their geospatial context, whereas participatory sensing enables gathering of geo-referenced data through sensorequipped mobile phones. In all of these applications, the users’ loca...