Advisory Note: Dealing with privacy risks in mobile environments - 70224

The ongoing trend of IT consumerization and deperimeterization has a profound effect on modern society. Mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and their numbers are growing exponentially. Social networking has made sharing information all too easy and controlling its spread nearly impossible. Growing adoption of cloud-based services, while having obvious advantages, means that more and more sensitive information is now stored and managed by third parties, and users are no longer in direct control over it.

Combined with the inconsistency and largely reactive nature of current regulations, all this has led to a significant erosion of the public expectation of privacy and opened many opportunities for abuse. Some have even gone as far as to claim that privacy is no longer relevant. But is it really so?

This paper presents an analysis of privacy-related challenges consumers and businesses are currently facing, especially those specific to mobile platforms...