PRIVACY IN CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ABSTRACT

Privacy is a big barrier for the acceptance of mobile business applications. Users require full privacy control over their context data like identity, time schedule, profiles, location, etc. Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) from W3C proposes a privacy solution for internet users. The aim of this PhD is to extend P3P to support user-centric privacy aspects in both pull and push services regarding context-aware mobile business applications. As a preliminary work, a privacy context data model from the privacy perspective will be formally described. Afterwards, P3P extension for the privacy architecture and policies will be designed. The required security protocols and cryptographic methods will be developed to enforce privacy with P3P policies. The proposed P3P extension will be integrated within the applications of an existing mobile business framework