Towards privacy-enhanced mobile communities-Architecture, concepts and user trials

  • Authors:
  • Markus Tschersich;Christian Kahl;Stephan Heim;Stephen Crane;Katja BöTtcher;Ioannis Krontiris;Kai Rannenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Long Down Avenue, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8QZ, UK;Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Grüüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Abstract: With the advent of mobile broadband technologies and capable mobile devices, social communities become a ubiquitous environment for people to stay in contact and share information with friends and fellows. This provides new opportunities for communities and their providers (e.g. regarding advertising) but also implies new question regarding the privacy and trust of their users. We argue that a balance needs to be found between these (partially) diverging interests and motivate, why a new approach to identity management and users privacy is necessary in this context. Based on requirements retrieved by real-life communities, we describe an architecture including privacy enhancing concepts and advanced privacy respecting advertising, which addresses such requirements. We further describe the architectures' prototypical implementation, and present for the first time evaluation results based on user trials with two different mobile communities.