AN NOVEL APPROACH TO PRIVACY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of dealing with privacy management of confidential data stored by enterprises and other organizations. We describe an innovative solution based on an adaptive privacy management system. In this system (arbitrarily complex) data  are retrieved from standard data repositories, in such a way that parts of these data are obfuscated and associated with privacy preserving techniques. Confidential data are ";first class"; objects that can be sent to other parties. Entities that try to access their content can be different from those entities that retrieve these objects. In particular, a Privacy Management System decides what is visible at a given time for each specific request for content. The visibility of (and access to) the obfuscated data is adaptive, depending on the requestor, the context and purpose.