Privacy regulations, industry practices, OECD [1] privacy guidelines, and policy languages such as the P3P [2] encourage companies to define their practices for handling and sharing personal information, including reasonable communication of these policies to individuals. All of these efforts focus on enterprises and the policies those enterprises set and support for personal data they collect or generate about individuals. However, one popular definition of privacy, by Alan Westin [3] , is “The right of individuals to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. ” This paper proposes a model for individualized privacy policies as an alternative to today’s common use of enterprise-wide policies. We describe how this policy information can be used to authorize actions on personal data, replacing traditional permission or role based access control.
By: Kathryn A. Bohrer, Stephen E. Levy, Xuan Liu, Edith G. Schonberg
Published in: RC22756 in 2003
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