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This paper provides a critical analysis of the impact of advanced technologies on our daily lives. It is contended that the integration of four key drivers (mobiles, data, sensors and social media) has a profound impact on society and human interaction on the social as well as the business scene. Whilst this impact has been intrusive, in that integration of these four key drivers eliminates the natural...
There is growing interest in the ways in which the location of a person can be utilized by new applications and services. Recent advances in mobile technologies have meant that the technical capability to record and transmit location data for processing is appearing in off-the-shelf handsets. This opens possibilities to profile people based on the places they visit, people they associate with, or...
Mobile technologies made their headway by offering more flexibility to end-users and improve the productivities. Many businesses have quickly adopted them so as to gain and sustain a competitive edge, especially in global roaming. Within the application of ubiquitous access and pervasive communication, security, privacy and QoS becomes a critical issue during global mobility, particularly in getting...
Information privacy is usually concerned with the confidentiality of personally identifiable information (PII), such as electronic medical records. Nowadays, Web services are used to support different applications which may contain PII, such as healthcare applications. Thus, the information access control mechanism for Web services must be embedded into privacy-enhancing technologies. Further as application...
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