Privacy Enhancements in the Mobile Internet

Abstract

While the mobile Internet makes available location-based as well as other useful services to the mobile users, risks to the user's privacy have to be taken into consideration as well. Personal user data, such as traffic data, location data, device and user specific capability and preference information, and content data is exposed at different sites, such as the WAP Gateway/Proxy or the Origin Server's sites. In this paper, we first define privacy and basic privacy requirements and analyze privacy risks in the mobile Internet environment.