Privacy

posted by  kevyn (54)  10 months ago (radio.weblogs.com)

I'm in the first session on privacy issues. Clare-Marie Karat is presenting a paper on a system for how to express formal privacy rules in natural language.

Here's a useful and simple definition of a privacy policy:

Who has access to what personal information:

• for what purposes


• to carry out what actions


• under what conditions


• with what obligations

Many of the question revolve around ways to handle exceptions -- which is the downfall of most data and workflow automation systems.

Karen Tang pre