PRiMMA

PriMo2011: First International Workshop on Mobile Privacy Management

cm476 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:54:29 +0000

PriMo2011 is the First International Workshop on Privacy Management in Mobile Applications and will be held on the 27^th of June 2011 in Copenhagen, in conjunction with IFIPTM 2011, the 5^th International Conference on Trust Management.

The workshop is endorsed by the PRiMMA project and will provide an exciting opportunity for leading international researchers to discuss and evaluate research approaches and achievements specific to mobile privacy within three key areas: privacy research methods, privacy design solutions and policy-based privacy management.

To find out more, visit the workshop website at http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/PriMo2011/

Geotagging Reveals where you are AND who you might know

bp5 — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:00:58 +0000

Researchers at Indianna and Cornell Universities have found that geotagged photos not only give away your location, but indicate who your friends might be in a recent paper showing that co-located uploaded photos to flickr have a high correlation with social ties.

Privacy Project using Cryptography to reduce unnecessary data sharing

bp5 — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:40:05 +0000

BBC News reports that IBM researchers in Zurich are working on an EU funded project called Attribute-Based Credentials for Trust (ABC4Trust) which encrypts all personal information in a personal privacy wallet. The idea is that when data is requested only the minimum necessary is revealed and that the reason for the request and what the data will be used for are also recorded.

Automatic Stalking From Uploaded Photos

bp5 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:37:29 +0000

The dangers of geo-tagged photos is highlighted by the site ICanStalkU.com which automatically extracts the hidden geotag information from publicly posted photos and posts them on the site feed.

British Minister Advocates Good Manners Not Laws To Tackle Privacy

bp5 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:54:26 +0000

British Immigration minister Damian Green says society must work out new privacy rules in response to changing technology and it is not for governments to legislate this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11472687

PRiMMA Mobile Privacy Workshop

akb235 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:35:24 +0000

Organised by the investigators working on the PRiMMA project, this 1-day workshop brought together the various UK research groups working in the area of privacy and mobile applications. The workshop was held on 23 September 2010 at Imperial College London.

The overall workshop was organised into three broad themes, with speakers presenting their ongoing research in short talks under each of these themes. After each set of presentations there was a lively discussion about the privacy and mobile technology issues that arose in the context of the research that was presented.

Mobile Privacy Workshop
Organised by the PRiMMA Project
23 September 2010

Programme

0930   Registration and Coffee

1015   PRiMMA Project Overview, Bashar Nuseibeh

1030   Session 1: Usability aspects of managing privacy
       Using Consumer Personal Data to Improve Financial Management;
       Sacha Brostoff, University College London

1045   Situated Privacy: The Role of Identity in Context;
       Anne Adams, The Open University

1100   Impact of Real-time Feedback on Mobile Location Sharing Applications;
       Lukasz Jedrzejczyk, The Open University

1115   Mobile Privacy Experience Sampling;
       Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews

1130   Discussion

 1215   LUNCH

1345   Session 2: Societal implications
       Privacy by Design; Ian Brown, Oxford University

1400   Communcation, Privacy and Social Relations; Adam Joinson, Bath University

1415   Evolution, Cognition, Society and Mobile Privacy; Clara Mancini, The Open University

1430   Discussion

1500   COFFEE

1530   Session 3: Privacy Policy Learning and Enforcement
       Learning Privacy Policies;
       Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London

1545   Pseudonymity is the best that you can do;
       David Evans, Cambridge University

1600   Supporting Privacy in Mobile Online Social Networks;
       Ryan Wishart, Imperial College

1615   Promoting Location Privacy;
       Daniele Quercia, Cambridge

1630   Discussion

1715   Close

New Scientist features PRiMMA research

akb235 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:11:13 +0000

OU PhD student, Lukasz Jedrzejczyk’s research on usable privacy controls features in a recent New Scientist article. Lukasz’s work is part of the EPSRC funded project on Privacy Rights Management for Mobile Applications (PRiMMA), being carried out in the Department of Computing at the OU. Motivated by the rising use of mobile applications, the project explores the user requirements, usability issues and technology solutions relating to supporting end user privacy when using these applications.

The work reported in the New Scientist relates to a trial of a haptic user interface that allows users to change the privacy settings of a location sharing application by simply shaking their smartphone in different ways. The results of this trial will be reported at the MobileHCI conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2010.

Links:

New Scientist: ‘Shake to adjust your smartphone privacy setting’
ACM TechNews: ‘Shake to adjust your smartphone privacy setting‘
EU Tech Crunch: ‘Want to set your Facebook Places location? Shake it baby‘
BBC Three Counties Radio: Blaine Price is interviewed about Privacy Shake

ContraVisions: Exploring future technologies

akb235 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:02:10 +0000

We conducted a study based on filming two futuristic scenarios, getting a group of potential users to watch and discuss the films. The two scenarios were carefully crafted to present opposing experiences of the same technology. For the purposes of producing the films for this study we imagined a future technology called DietMon, which allows a user to obtain calorific information about food that they might like to consume by simply looking at the food for 3 seconds. This imagined technology also included a embedded micro-sensor that monitored physical activity and physiological factors in order to give the user feedback of how well they were meeting their dieting goals.

The videos were were produced with the assistance of Tony Coe of Two Cats Can, a professional film production company. Extracts from each video, together with our Media Showcase submission to CHI 2010 can be found below.

If you are unable to stream the videos below, try right-clicking the links and downloading the files to your computer. Some of the files are large, so unless you’re on a fast connection, there may be a significant delay while the files are downloaded rather than streamed.

ContraVisions Media

CHI 2010 Media Showcase (720×400, MPEG4/H.264, 50MB)
CHI 2010 Trailer (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 70.4MB)
CHI 2010 Flyer (1500x1200px JPEG image, 213KB)

ContraVisions: DietMon videos

DietMon video extracts (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 85MB)
Positive
- DietMon technology (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 185MB)
- Character Interviews (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 182MB)
Negative
- DietMon technology (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 210MB)
- Character Interviews (1280x720P, MPEG4/H.264, 206MB)

Privacy Shake Interview on BBC 3 Counties Radio

bp5 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:32:57 +0000

PRiMMA researcher Blaine Price was interviewed on BBC 3 Counties Radio on Saturday 28 August about a new privacy interface developed for mobile phones by PhD student Lukasz Jedrzejczyk. Listen to the 5 minute interview here.

Collaborative Privacy Policy Authoring

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:57:14 +0000

Recent years have seen a significant increase in the popularity of social networking services. These online services enable users to construct groups of contacts, referred to as friends, with which they can share digital content and communicate. This sharing is actively encouraged by the social networking services, with users’ privacy often seen as a secondary concern. In this paper we first propose a privacy-aware social networking service and then introduce a collaborative approach to authoring privacy policies for the service. In addressing user privacy, our approach takes into account the needs of all parties affected by the disclosure of information and digital content.

Reference:

R.Wishart, D.Corapi. S.Marinovic, S. Sloman. “Collaborative Privacy Policy Authoring in a Social Networking Context”, (To appear) in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY), July, 2010, Richmond, VA.