Implementing Privacy as Symmetry in Location-aware Systems
Anders Kofod‐Petersen, Espen Klæboe, Jørgen Jervidalo, Kjetil Aaltvedt, Magnus Romnes, Trond Martin Nyhus · 2008
Social network services on the internet are moving from a traditional web-based service into ubiquitous computing environments. With this migration these services will also benefit from the contextawares that ubiquitous computing offers. Applications that sense the environment and act proactively, requires an immaculate attention to users’ privacy. The work presented here approaches privacy by employing the principle of minimum asymmetry to a mobile social network service. We demonstrate how this principle can be implemented on a simple location-aware application running on standard mobile telephones in a traditional GSM network.