Obligations: Building a Bridge between Personal and Enterprise Privacy in Pervasive Computing

  • Authors:
  • Susana Alcalde Bagüés;Jelena Mitic;Andreas Zeidler;Marta Tejada;Ignacio R. Matias;Carlos Fernandez Valdivielso

  • Affiliations:
  • Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain;Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany;Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • TrustBus '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present a novel architecture for extending the traditional notion of access control to privacy-related data toward a holistic privacy management system. The key elements used are obligations. They constitute a means for controlling the use of private data even after the data was disclosed to some third-party. Today's laws mostly are regulating the conduct of business between an individual and some enterprise. They mainly focus on long-lived and static relationships between a user and a service provider. However, due to the dynamic nature of pervasive computing environments, rather more sophisticated mechanisms than a simple offer/accept-based privacy negotiation are required. Thus, we introduce a privacy architecture which allows a user not only to negotiate the level of privacy needed in a rather automated way but also to track and monitor the whole life-cycle of data once it has been disclosed.