Title :
The PIPWatch toolbar: Combining PIPEDA, PETs and market forces through social navigation to enhance privacy protection and compliance
Author :
Clement, Andrew ; Ley, David ; Costantino, Terry ; Kurtz, Dan ; Tissenbaum, Mike
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Abstract :
This paper describes the prototype development of the PIPWatch toolbar, a software interface device embedded within a Web browser designed to enable consumers to easily assess and compare the compliance of on-line businesses with Canadian private-sector privacy legislation - the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. (PIPEDA). It represents a new form of privacy enhancing technology (PET) that employs social navigation techniques to help an on-line community of individuals concerned about the handling of their personal information to build and share a database that tracks the privacy performance and regulatory compliance of Websites they visit.
Keywords :
data privacy; online front-ends; user interfaces; Canadian private-sector privacy legislation; PIPWatch toolbar; Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act; Web browser; market forces; privacy enhancing technology; privacy protection enhancement; prototype development; social navigation; Consumer electronics; Data privacy; Databases; Embedded software; Legislation; Navigation; Positron emission tomography; Protection; Software prototyping; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society, 2008. ISTAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Fredericton, NB
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1669-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1670-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.2008.4559759
