PERSONAL PRIVACY MANAGEMENT IN THE KNX-AWARE HOME

In this work, we introduce the UCPF's user interface called Privacy Manager. The User Centric Privacy Framework (UCPF) was introduced in the International KNX Conference 2006 (1) as a novel mechanism to protect privacy information of the inhabitants of the KNX-Aware House. The Privacy Manager incorporates a set of applications designed especially to meet the requirement of being user friendliness , and make privacy management an attractive task for the inhabitants of the KNX home. Our first prototype provides inhabitants with the means to: i) customize permissions on the disclosure of their personal data, ii) control interactions with pull and push context-aware services, iii) negotiate obligations on the usage of the data once transmitted, iv) be aware of privacy related issues such as granted and denied permissions, v) apply alternative privacy mechanisms to access control as white lying and obfuscation , vi) adhere to enterprise privacy policies base on a contractual relationship with an enterprise or organization. Thus, the future of the KNX standard should be related with means to provide privacy in the home environment, and therefore, with means to allow a user managing his privacy preferences.