Device and method for centralized data management and access control to databases in a telecommunication network

A profile access mediator provides to a plurality of service providers a controlled and logically centralized access to personal profiles stored in a local or distributed database. The access to the databases containing user, service or terminal profiles is controlled and tracked by means of a plurality of personalized access technologies which are dependent on the typology of the data involved. Such scheme allows a better control of the data access, more efficiency in the security and accounting processes, as well as in the data access in general.