Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing

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 up to now seem like sheerest anarchy.” [1] It would be nice if by now, almost two decades later, we would have a standard set of solutions that we could easily prescribe for any ubicomp system (or any computer system in general): “in order to protect privacy, implement subroutines A, B, and C.”

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