Accessing and Disclosing Protected Resources: A User-Centric View

Today, data is money. Whether it is private users´ personal data or confidential data and assets belonging to service providers, all parties have a strong need to protect their resources when interacting with each other, i.e. for access control and authorization measures to be deployed. Enabling advanced user controlled privacy is essential to realize the visions of 5G applications and services. For service providers and enterprises resources are usually well safeguarded, while private users are often missing the tools and the know-how to protect their own data and preserve their privacy. The user´s personal data have become an economic asset, not necessarily to the owners of these data, but to the service providers, whose business models often include the use of these data. In this paper we focus on the user-service provider interaction and discuss how recent technological progress, in particular the framework of User Managed Access (UMA), can enable users to understand the value of their protected resources and possibly give them control of how their data will be used by service providers.