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Identifying privacy risks in distributed data services: A model-driven approach

Identifying privacy risks in distributed data services: A model-driven approach
Identifying privacy risks in distributed data services: A model-driven approach
Abstract: Online services are becoming increasingly data-centric; they collect, process, analyze and anonymously disclose growing amounts of personal data. It is crucial that such systems are engineered in a privacy-aware manner in order to satisfy both the privacy requirements of the user, and the legal privacy regulations that the system operates under. How can system developers be better supported to create privacy-aware systems and help them to understand and identify privacy risks? Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) offers a principled approach to engineer systems software. The capture of shared domain knowledge in models and corresponding tool support can increase the developers' understanding. In this paper, we argue for the application of MDE approaches to engineer privacy-aware systems. We present a general purpose privacy model and methodology that can be used to analyse and identify privacy risks in systems that comprise both access control and data pseudonymization enforcement technologies. We evaluate this method using a case-study based approach and show how the model can be applied to engineer privacy-aware systems and privacy
policies that reduce the risk of unintended disclosure.
2575-8411
1513 - 1518
IEEE
Grace, Paul
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Grace, Paul, Burns, Daniel, Neumann, Geoffrey, Pickering, Brian, Melas, Panagiotis and Surridge, Michael (2018) Identifying privacy risks in distributed data services: A model-driven approach. In 2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE. 1513 - 1518 . (doi:10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00157).

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Abstract: Online services are becoming increasingly data-centric; they collect, process, analyze and anonymously disclose growing amounts of personal data. It is crucial that such systems are engineered in a privacy-aware manner in order to satisfy both the privacy requirements of the user, and the legal privacy regulations that the system operates under. How can system developers be better supported to create privacy-aware systems and help them to understand and identify privacy risks? Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) offers a principled approach to engineer systems software. The capture of shared domain knowledge in models and corresponding tool support can increase the developers' understanding. In this paper, we argue for the application of MDE approaches to engineer privacy-aware systems. We present a general purpose privacy model and methodology that can be used to analyse and identify privacy risks in systems that comprise both access control and data pseudonymization enforcement technologies. We evaluate this method using a case-study based approach and show how the model can be applied to engineer privacy-aware systems and privacy
policies that reduce the risk of unintended disclosure.

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Submitted date: 15 March 2018
Accepted/In Press date: 19 April 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 July 2018
Published date: 23 July 2018
Venue - Dates: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, , Vienna, Austria, 2018-07-02 - 2018-07-05

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Local EPrints ID: 419998
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419998
ISSN: 2575-8411
PURE UUID: d6ea4218-2435-4407-af25-f61721365318
ORCID for Paul Grace: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-0630
ORCID for Daniel Burns: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-1068
ORCID for Brian Pickering: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6815-2938
ORCID for Michael Surridge: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1485-7024

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Date deposited: 25 Apr 2018 16:30
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Author: Paul Grace ORCID iD
Author: Daniel Burns ORCID iD
Author: Geoffrey Neumann
Author: Brian Pickering ORCID iD
Author: Panagiotis Melas
Author: Michael Surridge ORCID iD

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