Title: Privacy conscious architecture for personal information
transfer from personal trusted device to HTTP based service
Authors: Pekka Jäppinen, Jari Porras and Mika Yrjola
Abstract: Modern services request personal information from their
customers. The personal information is not needed only for identifying the
customer but also for customising the service for each customer. In this paper
we desribe an architecture for the delivery of personal information from the
customer to the HTTP based service in the Internet. The goal of our approach is
to simplify the use of services by helping the customer on providing the
required personal information. We also introduce methods for the customer to
control of his own privacy by providing notation to define required security
measures for automated data transfer. In this paper we point out the weaknesses
of existing approaches for personal information handling and propose an
architecture that relies on a mobile device, such as customer's mobile phone,
for storing the personal information. The service access relies on traditional
desktop computers. The information is transmitted to the service on request via
desktop computer that fetches the information from mobile device over wireless
link.