Accountability for data protection

Guarantees on the fair-use of provided or collected personal data is central to consumers while using on-line services. Also, service providers have to provide such guarantees to be in-line with current legislation in data protection and to promote their offered services. In this paper, we introduce the concept of accountability as a solution to data protection. We describe preliminary work around an accountability framework, in which we consider the accountability from the design time by providing design principles for accountable services, and an abstract language to describe accountability policies.