Classification of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on Life-cycle of Information

Recently, studies on privacy enhancing technologies have been actively carried out, as the importance of enterprise information, as well as privacy information, is becoming increasingly emphasized. Several organizations and enterprises have been conducting researches sporadically on privacy information technology. However, concept of privacy enhancing technology is not defined yet and there is no particular technology but P3P so far. Therefore, this paper provide classification mythology of privacy enhancing technology based on privacy information life-cycle. Privacy enhancing technology are classified into 3 technologies, which are operation technology, common based technology and policy/management technology. This technological classification can be break down more specifically by privacy information life cycle.