background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

Background and Objectives: Respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. It is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. Therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. Methods: This qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. The participant...

This paper concerns personal privacy and privacy protection in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments. It proposes a privacy ontology solution to facilitate automated processes in privacy control. The development of the privacy ontology is an integrated part of our ongoing effort towards a privacy-respecting middleware solution for context-aware systems.

Online Social Networks form an increasingly important part of people’s lives. As mobile technologies improve accessibility, concerns about privacy and trust are more apparent as advertising becomes a critical component of most social network’s economic model. In this paper we describe the PICOS project’s research into privacy preserving advertising options for social networks. We introduce an a...

This paper discusses one area of our research interests that fit with the scope of the workshop. Specifically, our domain of interest discussed here is cross-system personalization (CSP), an innovative technology that enables consistent personalized user experience across different applications, platforms and even devices. Despite the potential benefits to both service providers and end users, ...

Wikis are popular tools for creation and sharing of content. Integrated reputation systems allow to assess expertise and reliability of authors and thus to support trust in the wiki content. Yet, results from our empirical study indicate that the disclosure of user reputation evokes privacy issues. As a solution for this conflict between the need to evaluate trustworthiness of users and protect...

In these days’ information society, people share their life with others not only in their direct, personal environment, but also on the Internet by using social software such as collaborative workspaces. In this context, an important issue is maintaining control over personal data, i.e., who is able to access which information. In this paper, we argue why traditional access control mechanisms a...

This paper targets personal privacy protection in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments. It proposes a privacy agent technology to help notify people of relevant information disclosure, and to empower them to manage privacy with relative ease. In essence, the development of the privacy agent technology employs privacy terminology and policies specified in Platform for Privacy Preferen...