Title :
Towards automatic negotiation of privacy contracts for Internet services
Author :
Bennicke, Marcel ; Langendörfer, Peter
Author_Institution :
IHP, Frankfurt, Germany
fDate :
28 Sept.-1 Oct. 2003
Abstract :
Concerns of users about the privacy of their data are becoming more important to providers of online services, as they develop into a major barrier for broad acceptance of applications, that gather data about their users. With P3P there exists a standard that, in the context of Web-based applications, gives users some control over the gathering, use and relaying of their data. However, P3P still lacks a negotiation mechanism. This article outlines basic mechanisms that can be used to implement a privacy negotiation protocol. Our ideas extend the expressiveness of the P3P languages and provide means to improve their negotiation strategy to service users as well as to service providers. We also discuss open issues such as how to make sure that the negotiation will terminate.
Keywords :
Internet; contracts; protocols; telecommunication services; Internet services; Web-based applications; automatic negotiation; online services; privacy negotiation protocol; service providers; Business; Contracts; Credit cards; Data privacy; Europe; Joining processes; Protocols; Relays; Web and internet services; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Networks, 2003. ICON2003. The 11th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7788-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICON.2003.1266210