Privacy Preservation Approach in Service Ecosystems

Emergence of business networking and social networking increases the exchange of sensitive information and creation of behaviour traces in the network. However, the current computing and communication solutions do not provide sufficient conceptual, architectural or technical facilities to preserve privacy while collaborating in the network. This paper enhances definition on privacy-related concepts to become sufficient for open service ecosystems, and finally introduces a privacy-preservation architecture with emphasis on usability, sustainability against threats, and reasonable cost of establishment and utilisation. As this architecture introduces new categories of tools for privacy preservation, it is significant also as a roadmap or maturity model.