Could Your Mobile Broadband Internet Provider Threaten Your Digital Privacy?
- Users privacy is more and more relevant in today digital world. In this paper, we study how mobile network operators (MNOs) practices can lead to loss of privacy for mobile phone subscribers. This article focuses on the mobile phone service providers' implication in privacy violation. Network attacks from other agents, such as cyber-criminals, are not covered in this work. We review the impact of the location tracking improvement from 2G to 5G networks on police investigations and users' privacy rights. We also study the role of MNOs in users' sensitive data monetization and the legality behind this practice. There are few existing publications aiming to enhance mobile phone users' privacy protection against mobile broadband internet providers. We have tried to list all of them in this article.
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| Author: | Even BeckerORCiD, Hubert DjuitcheuORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-71288 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.26204/KLUEDO/7128 |
| Parent Title (English): | 2022 Workshop on Next Generation Networks and Applications (NGNA 2022) |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language of publication: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/11/25 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2023/01/30 |
| Tag: | 5G networks; Privacy; location tracking; surveillance; web tracking |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik |
| DDC-Cassification: | 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |