Visible to the public Capacity: An Abstract Model of Control over Personal Data

TitleCapacity: An Abstract Model of Control over Personal Data
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsLe Métayer, Daniel, Rauzy, Pablo
Conference NameProceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-5632-9
KeywordsControl, control theory, Cyber physical system, cyber physical systems, formal model, Human Behavior, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability
Abstract

While the control of individuals over their personal data is increasingly seen as an essential component of their privacy, the word "control" is usually used in a very vague way, both by lawyers and by computer scientists. This lack of precision may lead to misunderstandings and makes it difficult to check compliance. To address this issue, we propose a formal framework based on capacities to specify the notion of control over personal data and to reason about control properties. We illustrate our framework with social network systems and show that it makes it possible to characterize the types of control over personal data that they provide to their users and to compare them in a rigorous way.

URLhttps://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3176258.3176314
DOI10.1145/3176258.3176314
Citation Keyle_metayer_capacity:_2018