Conceptual Modelling: A Privacy Perspective

Current privacy enhancing database systems (e.g., Hippocratic) concentrate on facilitating known privacy regulations and guidelines without major change to the database design according to the properties of personal information. This paper introduces personal information database model based on personal information ontology below the levels of policy and privacy preferences. It includes such aspects as how to represent and store personal information, how to operate on (e.g., update, retrieve) personal information, and how to protect personal information utilizing access control designed according to the properties of personal information.