Information technology and modern challenges in civil protection create many questions concerning infrastructure security
and reliability. In particular, mobile communications and the spread of mobile phones among citizens offer new opportunities
of fine-grained disaster management using location based services (LBS). At the same time, location based services are regarded
as very privacy-invading, and are regulated in many countries by law. In our article, we analyze the requirements of a LBS
based disaster management scenario and propose a solution on how to build a privacy-friendly, multilaterally secure disaster
management infrastructure based on robust, mobile phone infrastructures with high reachability of citizens and the possibility
to manage disaster specialists.
This work was supported by the IST PRIME project; however, it represents the view of the authors only.