Name: Marc

Family Name: Langheinrich

Affiliation: University of Lugano (USI)

Personal web-site: http://www.inf.unisi.ch/faculty/langheinrich/

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Short BIO

Marc Langheinrich is assistant professor for Computer Science at the University of Lugano (USI) since September 2008. Marc received a masters degree (Diplom) in computer science from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997, and his PhD (Dr. sc.) from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2005. Before joining the ETH Zurich in 1999, he worked for several years as a researcher in both academia (Univ. of Washington, Seattle) and industry (NEC Research, Tokyo). Marc is one of the authors of P3P, a W3C-standard for privacy on the Web, and has published extensively on privacy aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems.

Title of the presentation

Privacy in Smart Environments

Abstract

Today's technological trends like GPS-enabled mobile phones and RFID-tagged consumer items seem to herald a society where larger and larger parts of our lives will be digitized, in order to provide better services, cheaper goods, and improve health and safety. It is imperative, then, that future privacy enhancing technology can keep pace with such developments that open up our lives for others to inspect and search, potentially creating a comprehensive surveillance network of unprecedented scale. In my talk, I want to briefly summarize the technical developments behind ubiquitous computing and discuss the challenges that these new technologies pose to the development of PETs in this arena.

On-line publications

Marc Langheinrich: A survey of RFID privacy approaches. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Springer, October 2008. DOI: 10.1007/s00779-008-0213-4http://www.springerlink.com/content/p71246k75029v715/

Marc Langheinrich, Remo Marti: Practical Minimalist Cryptography for RFID Privacy. IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on RFID Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 115-128, December 2007. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/shamirtags07.pdf

Saadi Lahlou, Marc Langheinrich, Carsten Rocker: Privacy and trust issues with invisible computers. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 3, ACM Press, pp. 59-60, March 2005.

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