Privacy Compliance Checking using a Model-Based Approach

In order to conduct business, organizations must try to assess and ensure compliance with privacy legislation, policies and regulations, as part of their IT governance initiatives. As well as these ‘data protection’ concerns, there may be an intangible value in proposing an ‘open’ approach to privacy compliance, for example by showing all privacy-relevant information as is done within the Google dashboard (Google, 2009). Such privacy management is an important issue for e-business organizations since e-business can be defined as “the utilization of information and communicaABSTRACT