Citizen Empowerment by a Technical Approach for Privacy Enforcement

Sascha Alpers, Stefanie Betz, Andreas Fritsch, Andreas Oberweis, Gunther Schiefer, Manuela Wagner

2018

Abstract

It is a fundamental right of every natural person to control which personal information is collected, stored and processed by whom, for what purposes and how long. In fact, many (cloud based) services can only be used if the user allows them broad data collection and analysis. Often, users can only decide to either give their data or not to participate in communities. The refusal to provide personal data results in significant drawbacks for social interaction. That is why we believe that there is a need for tools to control one's own data in an easy and effective way as protection against economic interest of global companies and their cloud computing systems (as data collector from apps, mobiles and services). Especially, as nowadays everybody is permanently online using different services and devices, users are often lacking the means to effectively control the access to their private data. Therefore, we present an approach to manage and distribute privacy settings: PRIVACY-AVARE is intended to enable users to centrally determine their data protection preferences and to apply them on different devices. Thus, users gain control over their data when using cloud based services. In this paper, we present the main idea of PRIVACY-AVARE.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alpers S., Betz S., Fritsch A., Oberweis A., Schiefer G. and Wagner M. (2018). Citizen Empowerment by a Technical Approach for Privacy Enforcement.In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-295-0, pages 589-595. DOI: 10.5220/0006789805890595

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer18,
author={Sascha Alpers and Stefanie Betz and Andreas Fritsch and Andreas Oberweis and Gunther Schiefer and Manuela Wagner},
title={Citizen Empowerment by a Technical Approach for Privacy Enforcement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2018},
pages={589-595},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006789805890595},
isbn={978-989-758-295-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Citizen Empowerment by a Technical Approach for Privacy Enforcement
SN - 978-989-758-295-0
AU - Alpers S.
AU - Betz S.
AU - Fritsch A.
AU - Oberweis A.
AU - Schiefer G.
AU - Wagner M.
PY - 2018
SP - 589
EP - 595
DO - 10.5220/0006789805890595