Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook offer a plethora of privacy controls, but users rarely exploit all of these controls, nor do they do so in a similar manner. In this paper, we analyze distinct profiles of users’ privacy management strategies on Facebook (including but also going beyond information disclosure behavior). We cluster the self-reported privacy behaviors of 308 Facebook u...

Privacy Policy Framework: Addressing Privacy Problems in SOA Laurent Bussard and Ulrich Pinsdorf European Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany {LBussard, Ulrich.Pinsdorf}@microsoft.com Abstract. This paper argues that privacy policies in SOA needs a lifeThis paper argues that privacy policies in SOA needs a lifecycle model. We formalize the lifecycle of personal data and associated priv...

Individual privacy is often viewed as something that is under threat. The proliferation of computers, networks, electronic information services and digital data has increased concern about privacy. This is the view portrayed in international literature, particularly from the United States. But how concerned are New Zealanders about privacy? This study examines New Zealanders’ privacy attitudes ...

The Access control mechanism avoids the unauthorized access of sensitive information. It protects the user information from the unauthorized access. The privacy protection mechanism is a much important concern in the case of sharing the sensitive information. The privacy protection mechanism provides better privacy for the sensitive information which is to be shared. The generally used privacy ...

Online privacy is an issue of increasing national importance, and voluntary privacy seals provided by third-party organizations such as TRUSTe and BBBOnline have been proposed as a means of assuring consumer privacy. Few studies have examined privacy seal effects. This study presents results of an online experiment that evaluated consumer response to privacy seals in a naturalistic exposure set...

Privacy is one of the most important and difficult research issues in ubiquitous computing. It is qualitative rather than quantitative. Privacy preserving mainly relies on policy based rules of the system, and users cannot adjust their privacy disclosure rules dynamically based on their wishes. To make users understand and control their privacy measurement, we present a scheme to quantize the p...

The Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS'' or "Department'') modifies certain standards in the Rule entitled "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' ("Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The purpose of these...

In this paper we address the realization of personal privacy control in pervasive computing. We argue that personal privacy demands differ substantially from those assumed in enterprise privacy control. This is demonstrated by introducing seven requirements specific for personal privacy, which are then used for the definition of our privacy policy language, called SenTry. It is designed to take...

In information privacy literature, limited attention was paid to the studies on the effects of a person’s privacy disposition on his/her privacy concerns. This relationship is of critical importance to privacy research, as privacy disposition is believed to be an important antecedent of privacy perceptions. In this study, a research model is developed to examine the impacts of a person’s privac...

Approaches to addressing privacy issues tend to assume privacy is well understood and typically approach the problem from a security perspective. However, security is more concerned with safety than with privacy. Given the lack of satisfaction with advanced privacy-enhancing-technologies, we argue that an ontological framework is fundamental to advancing the capabilities of technologyenabled so...