Putting Users First: How Can Privacy be Protected in Today’s Complex Mobile Ecosystem?
Traditional approaches to ‘online privacy’ are often based on ‘compliance’ with a patchwork of local laws (where they exist). However, as new mobile services, applications and data flows become increasingly global, geo-graphically-bound laws appear unable to keep pace. Self-regulation has an important role to play in ensuring that mobile users’ privacy is treated consistently irrespective of the location of companies, the technologies and business models involved. A key challenge for industry is (a) to identify mobile-friendly ways of helping users make informed decisions about their information and privacy; and (b) to ensure user privacy is respected and protected by those designing and building the services and applications of tomorrow.
The aim of this proposed workshop is to foster a constructive conversation around three key issues:
- Are privacy challenges on the mobile platform different to the fixed-pc environment? [Particularly in the context of:
Location privacy
Behavioural Advertising
Applications and related services - To what extent is mobile users’ privacy protected across technological and legal boundaries?
- What are different stakeholders doing, what can they do and what should they be doing to address these challenges?
- A Representative from GSMA (Pat Walshe, Director of Privacy)
- One mobile operator: Jeff Brueggeman (Vice President-Publiy Policy AT&T)
- A rep from the online industry: (i) Patrick Ryan, Policy Counsel, Open Internet for Google Inc
- A rep from an open source software developer: Ms Juliana Rotich, Executive Director of Ushahidi Inc
- Sunil Abraham, executive director, The Centre for Internet and Society (India)
- An academic (Ian Brown, co-director of Oxford University's Information Security and Privacy Programme )
Panel Moderator: Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
- Natasha Jackson: Head of Content, GSMA and Board member of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)
- Pat Walshe: Director of Privacy, GSMA, Member British Computer Society, International Association of Privacy Professionals
Organization:GSM Association