From CIO.com: "Mobile subscribers will be able to easily control what applications can access their location and other personal information with software that’s now commercially available from Redknee, the mobile infrastructure software vendor said Tuesday.

With the proliferation of services on mobile phones, including ones that use information about a cell phone’s location or a subscriber’s "presence" on instant messaging or other systems, more personal data is going into the back end of the mobile network, said Jeff Popoff, vice president of marketing at Redknee. The company, which already sells carriers software for personalizing mobile data services and simplifying phone-based transactions, now wants to help operators ease concerns about the privacy of that data.

The Mississauga, Ontario, vendor’s Unified Profile Server (UPS) lets a mobile operator centralize control over access to subscriber data that may exist in many different places on its network, Popoff said. With one setup session, the subscriber can set down rules for which applications or vendors can see specific types of information related to user identity. Those could include current location, credit card number, shipping address, phone number, buddy lists and presence, Popoff said. [...]"