Dynamic Privacy Control Mechanisms

In this research we argue that user involvement in the control of their privacy represents a success factor in the design of next generation computing and information systems like context-aware mobile environments. Furthermore, maintaining user involvement is expected to be challenging due to the technical complexity of facilitating user interventions in the dynamic and mobile settings, the richness of the data that has to be controlled, and the limited familiarity users have with such environments.  Therefore, a flexible approach is needed to meet different user requirements and to deal with changing user needs more effectively. Increasingly, this approach has to deal with uncertainty conditions caused by the interaction between a number of factors that influence users’ willingness to share their private information, and the lack of knowledge about the behaviour of the users themselves when trying to predict their consent decisions. We propose a sharing evaluator model, ShEM that help users make consent decisions under these conditions of uncertainty and dynamic circumstances.

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Naima Zerhane

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