Ad hoc Privacy Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Privacy in ubiquitous computing is often discussed on a technical level with a focus on cryptography and anonymization. On the other side it is equally important to concentrate on user side aspects of privacy control, i.e., to enable users of ubicomp applications to practice privacy dynamically and in an intuitive way. In our work we review previous approaches on user side management of private information in smart environments and motive a new ad hoc based, semi-automatic privacy control. We present a privacy focused, data mining powered interaction model with ubicomp services and provide a prototype environment for evaluating this model. This environment can be used to perform and capture privacy related service interaction in a user study with real users as well as in a simulation with agents simulating users and their privacy related service interaction. Finally we show results of a first simulation which initially tests the proposed interaction model in the prototype environment.