Save This PageConcept for Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing.
Mark Weiser’s vision of the ubiquitous computers, that invisibly integrate in everyday life is dating 15 years back. Meanwhile many technologies like RFID, have risen, that make the vision an upcoming reality. The current and coming information and communication technologies are rated so important, that the information society has been claimed by the highest councils. But how will we live with computers that are everywhere and invisible? How can we control communication, which information we provide and which we receive?
Even in today’s low technologisation of our everyday lifes, low compared to the ubiquitous computing vision, we long have lost control. And with every new technology we lose another piece of privacy. One reason for this, is the patchwork as today’s privacy and communication control systems are representing themselves. It’s complicated to maintain privacy, and if you do not actively preserve it, you lose it – hence privacy as default.
My thesis is a proposal and start of discussion, how privacy can be protected while using all this technologies. To achieve this the concept is not a complicated additional system but deeply integrated in a commuication management, that will be needed anyway. Maintaining this way privacy by default.
For support, when I asked for it, and holding still, when I tried to get under radar, a huge 'Thank you!' goes to Prof. Philipp Heidkamp and Prof. Paolo Tumminelli.
Thesis: Privacy as default. Privacy by default! (
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Abstract/ToC: Privacy as default. Privacy by default! (
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