Helena Lindskog

Self-Determination in Mobile Internet: PiMI Prototype Results

Mobile Internet environments will offer a whole new range of services that might revolutionize our way of life. However, with these new technologies and services new risks to the user’s privacy arise, and both legal and technical privacy safeguards are needed to protect the user. This paper discusses privacy and privacy risks in the mobile Internet and presents the result of the PiMI prototype project, in which one browser built-in, and one proxy-based P3P user agent for mobile Internet environments have been developed. The PiMI prototype enhances the users’ control over the dissemination of user and user device related information and thus protects their right for informational self determination.

Preventing Privacy Attacks and CyberCrime in the Mobile Internet

In the mobile Internet, personal privacy is increasingly endangered. Personal data such as traffic data, content data, location data and parameters for personalized or context-aware services are exposed at different network sites and can be easily condensed to extensive user profiles. At the same time, computer networks and electronic information may be used for committing cybercrime attacks. This panel session will discuss: Privacy risks and cybercrime threats in the Mobile Internet Legal approaches for protecting privacy in the Mobile Internet, such as the proposed EU Directive COM (2000) 385 on privacy in electronic communication for regulating the processing of traffic and location data, confidentiality of communication, cookies and spamming will be discussed Technical means for privacy protection by data minimization or avoidance (e.g., through flat rate billing or anonymisation of location data), or by informed user consent (e.g., through P3P) Conflicting interests and approaches on traffic data retention or preservation by law-enforcement authorities.