Baw Chng

Identity, Privacy, and Tracking on Communication Networks

“Who are you?” “Can I prove who I am?” “Can I guess who you are?” “Can I verify you are who you say you are?” “Can I figure out what you are doing?” “Can I figure out where you are?” “Can I prevent you from figuring out who I am?” “Can I prevent you from figuring out what I have been up to?” …

On the global communication networks where we often conduct business without meeting face-to-face, these are questions often posed and faced by consumers, businesses, marketers, governments, institutions, and the general public alike, with intentions good and bad.

This talk goes over how the concepts of “identity,” “privacy,” “tracking,” and their attendant issues are treated in modern communication networks, including the wireless networks and the Internet.

Time permitting, this talk may also venture into how these concepts and their handling may evolve in the communication networks of the future, in 6G and beyond.

Biography:

Baw Chng (IEEE Senior Member) is the President of BAWMAN LLC with a consulting practice in networking and telecommunications. Mr. Chng has over two decades of industry experience and primarily consults for telecommunications and Internet service providers, their strategic technology providers, industry trade groups, Standards organizations, investors, and the legal community. Mr. Chng has been awarded multiple patents spanning the areas of network architecture, mobile networking, wireless communications, authentication and access control, network fault management, and related user experience designs. Mr. Chng has published in various peer-reviewed avenues. Mr. Chng co-chairs the IEEE’s Future Networks Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) Working Group. Mr. Chng provides strategic and business consulting, technology consulting, Standards consulting & representation, patent & intellectual property consulting, and expert witness services in matters concerning computer networking and wireless communications.