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Tailoring Privacy to Users’ Needs 1

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User Modeling 2001 (UM 2001)

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This article discusses how the deployment of personalized systems is affected by users’ privacy concerns and by privacy legislation. It shows that these impacts are substantial and will require a significant enhancement of current systems. Basic requirements can already be met with existing technology. Most privacy laws however also impose demands that call for new technologies that still need to be researched. A central conclusion of the paper is that a uniform solution for privacy demands does not exist since both user preferences and legal stipulations are too heterogeneous. Instead, privacy will have to be dynamically tailored to each individual user’s needs, and to the jurisdiction at both the location of the personalized system and that of the user.

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    Alfred Kobsa

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  2. University of Texas, 19015, Arlington, TX, 76019-0015, USA

    Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz

  3. Department of Computer Science ARIES, University of Saskatchewan, 1C101 Engineering Bldg., 57 Campus Dr., Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A9

    Julita Vassileva

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Kobsa, A. (2001). Tailoring Privacy to Users’ Needs 1 . In: Bauer, M., Gmytrasiewicz, P.J., Vassileva, J. (eds) User Modeling 2001. UM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44566-8_52

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