December 2000
W3C/WAP Workshop
Mobile Web Privacy
Position Paper
Ricarda Weber
Siemens Corporate Technology
Security Technologies
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
D-81730 Munich
Tel.: +49/89/636-4006
Email: ricarda.weber@mchp.siemens.de
Disclaimer
This position paper represents the author's personal point of view within the
Security Technologies department of the Siemens Corporate Technology Unit
only.
Company Background
Siemens as provider of Web and WAP sites as well as manufacturer of end-user
devices like cell phones, PDAs and personal computers on the one hand and
telecommunication infrastructures on the other hand is aware of the need for
customer privacy protection. This awareness for instance resulted in a company
wide Web site privacy policy statement (see http://www.siemens.com/en2/html/privacy_policy).
Siemens, together with other European IT manufacturers, strives within
EICTA (see http://www.eicta.org) to promote
the common interests of the represented ICT Industry in Europe towards the
European Commission, Parliament, Council and member states. EICTA has formed a
negotiation team regarding the General Data Protection Directive of the
European Comission. Siemens is represented in this team with its mobile device
and its personal computer units.
Research Interests
The author's personal interests in privacy protection in mobile contexts arise
from a Siemens internal research project. This project will address privacy
protection of mobile end-users. Privacy topics according to our point of view
gain additional momentum in mobile scenarios due to increased facilities to
identify and locate mobile end-users. Special topics of interest in this
context are:
use cases regarding collection and deployment of privacy relevant
information
consistent privacy protection across fixed and mobile Web platforms
roles of gateways, portals and network operators in privacy protection
processes
technical measures to ensure privacy protection
means for end-users to control privacy protection issues
national and international legal aspects of privacy protection
November 6th, 2000, R. Weber, Siemens Corporate Technology, Security
Technologies