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Free Chapter: “A Dynamic Privacy Manager for Compliance in Pervasive Computing”

Is Big Data Growing up to be “Big Brother”?

By IGI Global on Jun 26, 2013
Big Brother is WatchingYou are being watched. Every detail- your location via mobile phone, purchases via credit cards, transactions via online banking, interests via web-surfing- basically everything excluding your innermost thoughts, is being recorded. You are part of a collection where your information is being documented, down to the very communications you have on the phone.

Recently, the alarming level of government involvement in our personal lives has been brought to public attention with the unveiling of the biggest government telephone surveillance operation in history. A few weeks ago, Verizon responded to allegations that it had turned over millions of customer phone records to the National Security Agency, saying that it was forced to comply with court orders.

The court order required Verizon to give the National Security Agency information on all of its customers' phone records — and not just those of individuals under suspicion of wrongdoing. The order requires the phone numbers of customers, the time and duration of their calls, and other similar identification information. Considering the ongoing threat of terrorism and organized crime, it is understandable that the NSA has good intentions here. But when does national security become “Big Brother?” When will the idea of privacy no longer exist?

The 2013 IGI Global title collection, Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications contains a chapter evaluating and developing boundaries for privacy infringement. “A Dynamic Privacy Manager for Compliance in Pervasive Computing,” by Riccardo Bonazzi (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Zhan Liu (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Simon Ganière (Deloitte SA, Switzerland), and Yves Pigneur (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), outlines a plan for organizations to ensure that projects properly take privacy considerations into account; a complex challenge for accountable privacy management. This chapter reviews the most relevant decision support technology, with a focus on formalized approaches for expressing privacy and security policies. Following is an excerpt from the chapter:

"Privacy is generally referred as “a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by others” (Oxford Dictionary, 2010), and privacy management for pervasive technologies can be treated as an information security issue. Security experts have been advocating that information security should result from the alignment of the technical, business, and regulatory dimensions (Anderson, 2001), suggesting an information risk management approach to let the user achieve the best security level according to the environmental threats (Blakley et al. 2001). Therefore one should also look at how to manage the risk that privacy is not assured, before looking at how to achieve privacy from a technical point of view."

Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, comprised of 4 volumes, is a comprehensive collection of research on the latest advancements and developments of data mining and how it fits into the technological world. IGI Global hosts hundreds of resources dedicated to the issues of privacy and big data management and monitoring. The Topic Collection Privacy and Protection in the Digital Age provides such research, as well as technical standards crucial to the importance and impact of information technology. This vital set of 17 scholarly titles covers topics on information communication, IT standards, IT privacy and policy, technology law, and much more. These titles represent IGI Global’s distinct coverage of the importance of privacy and protection of information in the digital age.

Topic collections are available in both print and electronic formats and contain an average of 20 titles bundled for a fraction of the individual list price. Including both backlist and frontlist titles allows for a greater breadth of coverage while maintaining focus on evolving issues and developments in today’s society. For more information visit IGI Global’s Topic Collection page.

Follow this link for free access to the chapter “A Dynamic Privacy Manager for Compliance in Pervasive Computing”.

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