Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing

The advent of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) has brought a set of new challenges along with numerous advantages. The notion of UbiComp was envisioned in 1991 by Marc Weiser in his seminal paper [1] and has become a hot topic ever since. Despite a lot of research conducted in the area, there are still a lot of issues to elaborate on. In this position paper, we describe our concerns about designing UbiComp systems in a privacy compliant and secure fashion. We focus ourselves on privacy management in a dynamic UbiComp environment. The paper is structured as follows. In Section 2 several UbiComp-specific problems are outlined. We provide for solutions and our general view on ensuring privacy and security in a UbiComp system in Section 3. The importance of implementing ubiquitous systems in a privacy-aware and secure way is outlined in Section 4.