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website (such as a web page), portions of a website, or the entire web-

site. P3P employs an XML encoding scheme for P3P policies. pawS

[24] is a similar approach. Both P3P and pawS are specifically designed

to address privacy issues on the Web. A more general approach uti-

lizing the same basic idea has been proposed to protect privacy when

arbitrary location-based applications request a user’s location [25].

6.7 Summary

Mobile security and privacy are by all means interrelated issues that

must be addressed as a whole. Because of the potentially pervasive

nature of future mobile computing applications, people are far more

concerned with these issues than common security risks in a wired

network environment. ...