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Privacy Monitoring and Assessment for Ubiquitous Systems

Authors:
Mitja Vardjan
Jan Porekar

Keywords: privacy; assessment; monitoring; pervasive; ubiquitous

Abstract:
Pervasive services and their respective front-ends can have access to large amounts of personally identifying and sensitive private information. Most of the platforms allow for user to control which particular private information APIs the services can access and allow the end-user to accept or reject a particular privacy policy. However, the actual privacy practices of services may differ from the ones promised in the privacy policy. This paper outlines the basic assessment mechanisms and measures that enable user with insight on how much private information is actually being accessed and forwarded by each service deployed to the platform. The paper presents architecture for monitoring and assessing privacy practices of pervasive services deployed into a generic pervasive service platform. Furthermore, the paper presents platform specific privacy assessment implementation design for Java OSGi based pervasive platforms and describes an initial implementation and preliminary privacy assessment results, based on correlating data access events with data transmission events.

Pages: 52 to 58

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-270-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013