Conformance verification of privacy policies

  • Authors:
  • Xiang Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University

  • Venue:
  • WS-FM'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web services and formal methods
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Web applications are both the consumers and providers of information. To increase customer confidence, many websites choose to publish their privacy protection policies. However, policy conformance is often neglected. We propose a logic based framework for formally specifying and reasoning about the implementation of privacy protection by a web application. A first order extension of computation tree logic is used to specify a policy. A verification paradigm, built upon a static control/data flow analysis, is presented to verify if a policy is satisfied.