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Distributed Context-Aware Systems

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The issue of privacy is well known and, for obvious reasons, distributed context-aware systems are not an exception. As a matter of fact, people are sensitive about revealing their location or activities (and other types of context information) which are often transmitted by such context-aware systems. In addition, such transmission is often done without requiring a specific user action, in order to increase the usability of such systems. In this chapter we define what privacy means within the realm of distributed context-aware systems; then, we describe the several privacy management techniques available: privacy policies, data perturbation, anonymization, and lookup notification.

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Ferreira, P., Alves, P. (2014). Privacy. In: Distributed Context-Aware Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04882-6_4

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