PSPAE 2011 - PSPAE 2011 : 3rd Workshop on Privacy and Security in PervasiveEnvironments

Pervasive computing pushes forward a vision where technology is integrated into everyday objects with the intent of facilitating the life of humans and making their interaction with the surrounding environment simpler. A critical element of pervasive and ambient intelligence environments is awareness: computing environments become aware of the activities of their users and a lot of their daily activities can be captured and recorded for future use. The users frequently ignore the amount of their personal data being collected and processed or shared wirelessly and how much their privacy may be invaded. An understanding of privacy in the domain of pervasive computing and learning to address privacy concerns is very critical. Ensuring the security and privacy of users' data is a critical prerequisite to creating public trust for pervasive environments. It is therefore, necessary for such environments to be designed, implemented and used in compliance with data subjects' fundamental rights while the adoption of specific safeguards is required. In addition, since misuse of collected data is easily enabled, preventive measures are needed