Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

John Christopher

Mohamed Fekih Ahmed

Rasel Chowdhury

Yassine Snoussi

Exemplary methods for facilitating secure communication between a mobile network subscriber and various service providers (SPs), the subscriber being associated with a plurality of entities comprising any combination of devices and profiles. Some embodiments can include: obtaining a security identifier associated with the subscriber; based on the security identifier, establishing an identity hierarchy comprising the plurality of entities associated with the subscriber; based on the security identifier, establishing consents for SPs to access data generated by the entities of the identity hierarchy; in response to a request comprising the security identifier, receiving a public key usable to encrypt data for sending to a particular SP, the data being decryptable using a corresponding secret key associated with an established consent for the particular SP; and encrypting the data using the public key and the identity hierarchy. Embodiments also include subscriber devices and server apparatus configurable to perform the exemplary methods.

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