How sensitive is your personal information?

  • Authors:
  • Sabah Al-Fedaghi

  • Affiliations:
  • Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The sensitivity of personal information is one of the most important factors in determining the individual's perception of privacy. A "gradation" of sensitivity of personal information can be used in many applications, such as deciding the security level that controls access to data and developing a measure of trust when self-disclosing personal information. This paper introduces a theoretical analysis of personal information sensitivity and defines its scope and puts forward possible methods of gradation. A methodology is proposed that can be used for developing a classification scheme of personal information.