Privacy2.0: Towards Collaborative Data-Privacy Protection

Abstract

Data protection is challenging in scenarios where numerous devices collect personal data without drawing attention from the individual concerned, e.g., in Ubiquitous Computing applications, Sensor Networks or Radio Frequency Identification installations. Technical mechanisms for data protection force the individual to keep track of his personal data and require a thorough understanding of technology. Regulatory approaches cannot keep pace with the advent of new privacy threats. This paper proposes and describes a new multidisciplinary research direction for data protection: The idea is to use Web2.0 mechanisms which let users share their experiences, observations and recommendations regarding the privacy practices of service providers in an intuitive and flexible manner. We define an innovative framework at the logical level, i.e., identify the components of the architecture. The core of the framework is a folksonomy of tagged geo-locations, physical items and Internet addresses that might have an impact on privacy. Our framework envisioned helps the user to decide if a data collector handles personal information compliant with legal regulations and according to the user preferences. We find out which current technologies can be adapted to implement our framework, and we discuss design alternatives and new research directions.

Scaling measurement experiments to planet-scale

“…Systems should only measure what users want to be measured, and users should be able to reconfigure what is being measured in order to reflect their personal preferences. One mechanism for doing this might be to use "web 2.0" technologies to allow users to signal their privacy preferences and share experiences with each other [9].…”

Collaborative data privacy for the web

“…Our Privacy 2.0 system borrows from previous work [1], which describes the ideas and principles behind Privacy 2.0 as a generic framework. In this section, we briefly sketch the Privacy 2.0 framework, its motivation and its components.…”

“…The generic concept of Privacy 2.0 is part of our previous work, cf. [1]. In this work, we describe a realization of Privacy 2.0 that is fully operational.…”

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“…Buchmann et al (2008) go further in positing that if we, as world societies, could reach common ground on data-privacy issues, we could "put pressure on services which violate the privacy of their consumers and [that would] let society enforce social standards for data protection. "…”