Taylor & Francis Aspects of Personal Privacy in Communications - Problems, Technology and Solutions (River Publishers Series in Communications)

The modern society is rapidly becoming a fully digital society. This has many benefits, but unfortunately it also means that personal privacy is threatened. The threat does not so much come from a 1984 style Big Brother, but rather from a set of smaller big brothers. The small big brothers are companies that we interact with; they are public services and institutions. Many of these little big brothers are indeed also being invited to our private data by ourselves. Privacy as a subject can be problematic. At the extreme it is personal freedom against safety and security. We shall not take a political stand on personal privacy and what level of personal freedom and privacy is the correct one. Aspects of Personal Privacy in Communications is mostly about understanding what privacy is and some of the technologies may help us to regain a bit of privacy. We discuss what privacy is about, what the different aspects of privacy may be and why privacy needs to be there by default. There are boundaries between personal privacy and societal requirements, and inevitably society will set limits to our privacy (Lawful Interception, etc.). There are technologies that are specifically designed to help us regain some digital privacy. These are commonly known as Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). We investigate some these PETs including MIX networks, Onion Routing and various privacy-preserving methods. Other aspects include identity and location privacy in cellular systems, privacy in RFID, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and sensor networks amongst others. Some aspects of cloud systems are also covered. Content: Getting a Grip on Privacy The Legal Context of Privacy Anonymous Communications Secure Multi-party Computations and Privacy Privacy and Data Mining in Telecommunications Requirements for Cellular System Subscriber Privacy The 3GPP Systems and Subscriber Privacy Future Cellular Systems and Enhanced Subscriber Privacy Sensor Networks Radio Frequency Identification Privacy and Trust for the Internet-of-Things Privacy in the Cloud Summary and Concluding Remarks About the Author Geir M. Koien is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Agder, Norway. He received his PhD. degree in Communications (2008) from Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. His current research interests include sys- tem architecture and access security, privacy and trust with special focus on telecommunication systems. He has previously worked for Ericsson Norway and Telenor R&D with research and development within the 3GPP mobile systems, and he was the Telenor delegate to the standardization work in the 3GPP SA3 (Security) work group for 10 years. He received the Best Paper Award in ACM WiSe in 2005 and in MobiSec in 2010. Vladimir A. Oleshchuk is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Agder, Norway. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (1988) from the Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine. From 1987 to 1991, he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the Taras Shevchenko University. He is employed at the University of Agder since 1992, first as Associate Professor, and then as Full Professor. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He has served as a program committee chair, program committee member and reviewer for many international conferences. His current research interests include formal methods and information security, privacy and trust with special focus on telecommunication systems and eHealth. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE MDM 2012.