[FYI] "Privacy in the next generation Internet..."

[Peter Kuhm <peter.kuhm@plus.at>]

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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:48:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Alberto Escudero-Pascual <aep@it.kth.se>
To: Alberto Escudero <aep@it.kth.se>
Subject: Dissertation Proposal Presentation 2001-12-13,13.00


For those of you that are living in Sweden, i welcome you to my phD
dissertation proposal next Thrusday  13th of December 2001 at 13.00PM in
the IMIT Seminar Room at the IT University in Kista.

If that is not the case you are welcome to read the proposal at:
http://www.it.kth.se/~aep/publications/phd-proposal/dissertation-proposal-escuderoa.pdf

Enjoy your Xtmas days

Alberto Escudero Pascual
/aep

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         20011213 at 13.00 - Dissertation Proposal Presentation

Doctoral Thesis Proposal Presentation
Title: "Privacy in the next generation Internet:
       Data protection in the context of European Union policy"
Candidate: Alberto Escudero-Pascual
Advisors:
      Professor Bjorn Pehrson.,
      Professor Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.,

Proposal Committee:
      Professor Björn Pehrson.,
      Professor Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.
      Professor Louise Yngström.

Time: Thrusday 13th of December 2001 at 13.00
Place: IMIT Seminar Room, IT University, 8th Floor, Kista

Abstract

   The  objective  of  this  dissertation  is  to identify privacy
   threats  in  the next generation Internet and study how privacy
   enhancing   technologies  can  improve  privacy.  Although  the
   internet  is  rapidly  becoming "the" communication network, it
   was not really engineered to preserve certain types of privacy.
   In  keeping  with  the  European  Union policies regarding data
   protection there is a need to understand the benefits of and to
   reduce the privacy risks of the this new generation of internet
   technology.

   Maintaining  proper  confidentiality  with  respect to location
   information,  traffic  information, and the actual data traffic
   itself  are  three  of  the  key provisions of the new european
   regulatory     framework    for    electronic    communications
   infrastructure and associated services. The European Union aims
   to  adapt  and update the existing Data Protection Directive to
   take  into  account  new technological developments and empower
   users   to   take  control  of  their  personally  identifiable
   information.  However, it is not well undersood how this policy
   and  the  underlying  internet  technology  can be brought into
   alignment.   For   example,  the  current  method  in  IPv6  of
   automatically  configuring  an  internet  device  results in an
   identifier  that  is  readily  observable  and  recognizable  -
   despite  the  user  moving from one network to another. Privacy
   advocates  have  already  pointed  to  this  as  a problem with
   respect to traffic analysis and location privacy.

   With  the  growth  in  social  and  economic  importants of the
   internet,  it  is  recognized that the underlying technology of
   the  next  generation  internet  must  not  only  meet the many
   technical  challanges  (such as reliability, availability, ...)
   but  must also meet the social expectations of such a pervasive
   technology. These social expectations are now in the process of
   being embodied as regulations and law.

   Thus  although there have been many technical efforts to insure
   data  confidentiality  in  the  next generation internet, if is
   still  not  known  if  the  native  IPv6  security and mobility
   features  will actually empower users and protect their privacy
   or if in fact just the opposite will occur.

   The  dissertation  will build upon my earlier licentiate thesis
   which showed that it is possible to provide location privacy in
   the  existing  internet  (with  IPv4).  The  dissertation  will
   address how to provide confidentiality of location information,
   traffic  information, and the actual data traffic itself in the
   next  generation  internet.  The  goal  of  dissertation  is to
   provide  both  (1)  recommendations to technical standarization
   bodies  and  regulators concerning the next generation internet
   so  as  to  establish  public telecommunications services which
   meet   the   appropriate   social,   economic,   and  technical
   requirements  and  (2)  to  provide  the technical underpinning
   necessary   in  the  next  generation  internet  so  that  this
   technology  and  its  deployment  can  meet  the specific legal
   obligations   of   the   new  European  Union  data  protection
   directive.

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