Mobile Privacy: What We Know and Don’t Know

By Prof Kai-Lung Hui

Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

By Prof James Kwok

Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Date:	27 Oct 2014

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Remarks:	Limited seats and first-come-first served. Priority is given to new comers. Registration starts one month before the talk.

Consumers are increasingly addicted to mobile applications. But their implications for personal privacy are insufficiently known. The personal privacy issue has only recently become a subject for intense public interest and concern due to recent world events and revelations. In this talk, the speakers will confront it head-on, taking the lid off the mystery surrounding how data in mobile phones can be accessed by others and what kinds of data are stored in them, and how such practice could affect or jeopardize personal privacy in a broader context. They will also speak to the emerging privacy challenges associated with mobile applications, and the corresponding government and usage policy considerations needed to address them.

Prof Kai-Lung Hui
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Dr Kai-Lung Hui is a home-grown Information Systems specialist with a first-class honor BBA in Information Systems Management and a PhD in the same discipline from HKUST. After serving in the Department of Information Systems at the National University of Singapore, he joined his alma mater and is now professor in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management. His research domain covers information privacy and security, the impact of the media on consumer behavior and the general impacts of information technologies. His research has appeared in such scholarly journals as American Economic Review, Management Science, MIS Quarterly and the Journal of MIS.
He was a consultant to Singapore’s Ministry of Law, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Intellectual Property Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He was also an invited expert speaker at the 2005 WIPO/OECD Expert meeting on Counterfeiting and Privacy held in Geneva.

Prof James Kwok
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Prof James Kwok holds a PhD from the Imperial College London in Digital Image Processing and was an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the California State University, Long Beach for four years. He is currently Associate Professor of Business Education in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management at HKUST. His research areas include computer security, hacking techniques, digital watermarking and copyright protection, with more than 60 journal and conference papers to his credit. A Certified Information Systems Auditor, Prof Kwok has been Senior Editor of the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application since May 2003. He has also been a Paper Reviewer for various academic journals and conferences throughout the years.