A privacy agent in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments

Abstract

This paper targets personal privacy protection in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments. It proposes a privacy agent technology to help notify people of relevant information disclosure, and to empower them to manage privacy with relative ease. In essence, the development of the privacy agent technology employs privacy terminology and policies specified in Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) [1], and uses ontological modeling technique to facilitate automated processes of privacy-relevant interactions on behalf of individuals. The development of privacy agent is an integrated part of our ongoing effort towards developing a privacy-respecting context-aware infrastructure. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2006.