An apparatus and a method for preserving the privacy of at least a user, wherein the method includes an authentication phase during which authentication information specifying a first level of access and a second level of access are detected, a determination phase during which it is determined, on the basis of the authentication information, whether the first or the second level of access is enabled, a first output phase during which at least one first set of personal information (P1) is outputted, through the output apparatus, if either the first level of access or the second level of access is enabled, and a second output phase during which at least one second set of personal information (P2) is outputted, through the output apparatus, only if the second level of access is enabled.