Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing
Marc Langheinrich · 2009
Privacy is by no means a recent addition to the Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp) research curriculum. In his 1991 Scientific American article, Mark Weiser already identified it as one of its biggest challenges: “Perhaps key among [the social issues that embodied virtuality will engender] is privacy: hundreds of computers in every room, all capable of sensing people near them and linked by high-speed networks, have the potential to make totalitarianism