Enforcing P3P policies using a digital rights management system

  • Authors:
  • Farzad Salim;Nicholas Paul Sheppard;Rei Safavi-Naini

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia;School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia;Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  • Venue:
  • PET'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The protection of privacy has gained considerable attention recently. In response to this, new privacy protection systems are being introduced. SITDRMis one such system that protects private data through the enforcement of licenses provided by consumers. Prior to supplying data, data owners are expected to construct a detailed license for the potential data users. A license specifies whom, under what conditions, may have what type of access to the protected data. The specification of a license by a data owner binds the enterprise data handling to the consumer's privacy preferences. However, licenses are very detailed, may reveal the internal structure of the enterprise and need to be kept synchronous with the enterprise privacy policy. To deal with this, we employ the Platform for Privacy Preferences Language (P3P) to communicate enterprise privacy policies to consumers and enable them to easily construct data licenses. A P3P policy is more abstract than a license, allows data owners to specify the purposes for which data are being collected and directly reflects the privacy policy of an enterprise.