Towards defining semantic foundations for purpose-based privacy policies

  • Authors:
  • Mohammad Jafari;Philip W.L. Fong;Reihaneh Safavi-Naini;Ken Barker;Nicholas Paul Sheppard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We define a semantic model for purpose, based on which purpose-based privacy policies can be meaningfully expressed and enforced in a business system. The model is based on the intuition that the purpose of an action is determined by its situation among other inter-related actions. Actions and their relationships can be modeled in the form of an action graph which is based on the business processes in a system. Accordingly, a modal logic and the corresponding model checking algorithm are developed for formal expression of purpose-based policies and verifying whether a particular system complies with them. It is also shown through various examples, how various typical purpose-based policies as well as some new policy types can be expressed and checked using our model.