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2006 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT 2006 Workshops)
Proposal of a method for protecting private information in user context
Phoenix, Arizona
January 23-January 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2510-5
Yuichi NAKATANI, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan
Tetsuro TOKUNAGA, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan
Hitoshi YAMAGUCHI, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan
Tadashi ITOH, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan
In a ubiquitous computing environment, people can obtain and transmit information anytime, anywhere. In this situation, a user?s context plays a key role. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous environment introduces some problems. The first is ease of access to what users truly want. The second important problem is handling private information. In utilizing a ubiquitous environment, all of a user?s context is held online, and applications may share them to propose advanced services. Therefore, a user?s context is automatically transmitted or attached as metadata. The context, however, includes the user?s private information. Therefore, we need a system that separates information into private and public elements and treats them differently. In view of this, we consider how to attach metadata and how to extract and protect transmitted private information, in the specific case of blog entries. We propose a method of protecting private information that expands the existing item definition format in the CaTaC platform. This method will support the establishment of new communication methods using blogs in the near future.
Citation:
Yuichi NAKATANI, Tetsuro TOKUNAGA, Hitoshi YAMAGUCHI, Tadashi ITOH, "Proposal of a method for protecting private information in user context," saint-w, pp.138-141, 2006 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT 2006 Workshops), 2006
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