Flexible Regulation with Privacy Points

Privacy Points as a Method to Support Privacy Impact Assessments

“…This instrument gives regulated companies great flexibility in how they can achieve the regulatory targets, whereas regulatory bodies do not have to deal with details of compensations for degradations. An application of eco-points to protection of privacy in the form of privacy points is presented by [2].…”

“…by multiplication with a scalar. Finding appropriate privacy metrics and developing a transformation of intermediary results into privacy points was left as an open issue in [2]. We address that issue in this paper.…”

“…Borrowing from ecological compensation measures in building codes, the utilitarian "privacy points" approach put forward in [2] could grant data collectors and processors more flexibility while at the same time extend and simplify the scope of data protection. We refine privacy points with privacy metrics and demonstrate the method's usefulness in a case study.…”