Specifying privacy policies with P3P and EPAL: lessons learned

  • Authors:
  • William H. Stufflebeam;Annie I. Antón;Qingfeng He;Neha Jain

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

As computing becomes more ubiquitous and Internet use continues to rise, it is increasingly important for organizations to construct accurate and effective privacy policies that document their information handling and usage practices. Most privacy policies are derived and specified in a somewhat ad-hoc manner, leading to policies that are of limited use to the consumers they are intended to serve. To make privacy policies more readable and enforceable, two privacy policy specification languages have emerged, P3P and EPAL. This paper discusses a case study in which the authors systematically formalized two real and complex, healthcare website privacy statements, and measured the results against well-known requirements engineering criteria.