Architecture for user-controlled e-privacy

  • Authors:
  • Peter Bodorik;Dawn Jutla

  • Affiliations:
  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Empowering users to make informed decision-making over online release of private data is a challenge in today's society. A large majority of users has rejected many e-privacy business models including Lumeria's, Zero-Knowledge's, and Microsoft's PassPort. In detailing privacy requirements for an architecture for user-controlled e-privacy, we provide some key reasons, mainly centered around user's perception of control, behind the apparent dismissal of business models for privacy based on trusted third parties. We describe an architecture, based on the P3P platform, that supports privacy requirements for enhanced user control of privacy. Privacy management issues that are addressed include the identification of data repositories and their purposes, user agents and their roles and interactions, and the separation of persona profile information from user preference information.