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Privacy Data Management and Awareness for Public Administrations: A Case Study from the Healthcare Domain

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Privacy Technologies and Policy (APF 2017)

Abstract

Development of Information Systems that ensure privacy is a challenging task that spans various fields such as technology, law and policy. Reports of recent privacy infringements indicate that we are far from not only achieving privacy but also from applying Privacy by Design principles. This is due to lack of holistic methods and tools which should enable to understand privacy issues, incorporate appropriate privacy controls during design-time and create and enforce a privacy policy during run-time. To address these issues, we present VisiOn Privacy Platform which provides holistic privacy management throughout the whole information system lifecycle. It contains a privacy aware process that is supported by a software platform and enables Data Controllers to ensure privacy and Data Subjects to gain control of their data, by participating in the privacy policy formulation. A case study from the healthcare domain is used to demonstrate the platform’s benefits.

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Notes

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    https://informationshield.com/.

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    https://www.nymity.com.

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    https://www.2b-advice.com.

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    https://www.otris.com/products/data-protection-management/.

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    https://onetrust.com.

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    https://www.truste.com.

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    https://disconnect.me/icons.

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    This questionnaire is not part of VPP and has been created only for the purposes of the trials and the evaluation of the platform.

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    https://smarthealthit.org/an-app-platform-for-healthcare/about/.

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This research was supported by the Visual Privacy Management in User Centric Open Environments (VisiOn) project, supported by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, Grant Agreement No. 653642.

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Diamantopoulou, V. et al. (2017). Privacy Data Management and Awareness for Public Administrations: A Case Study from the Healthcare Domain. In: Schweighofer, E., Leitold, H., Mitrakas, A., Rannenberg, K. (eds) Privacy Technologies and Policy. APF 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10518. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67280-9_11

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