IT-Security and Privacy: Design and Use of Privacy-Enhancing Security Mechanisms

Simone Fischer-Hübner (eds.)3540421424, 9783540421429

Invasion of privacy and misuse of personal data are among the most obvious negative effects of today’s information and communication technologies. Besides technical issues from a variety of fields, privacy legislation, depending on national activities and often lacking behind technical progress, plays an important role in designing, implementing, and using privacy-enhancing systems.
Taking into account technical aspects from IT security, this book presents in detail a formal task-based privacy model which can be used to technically enforce legal privacy requirements. Furthermore, the author specifies how the privacy model policy has been implemented together with other security policies in accordance with the Generalized Framework for Access Control (GFAC).
This book will appeal equally to R&D professionals and practitioners active in IT security and privacy, advanced students, and IT managers.

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Table of contents :
Introduction….Pages 1-4
Privacy in the Global Information Society….Pages 5-33
IT-Security….Pages 35-106
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies….Pages 107-165
A Task-Based Privacy Model….Pages 167-200
Specification and Implementation of the Privacy Policy Following the Generalised Framework for Access Control- Approach….Pages 201-257
Concluding Remarks….Pages 259-260
Appendix A: Formal Mathematical Privacy Model….Pages 261-323
Appendix B: Implementation of a Hospital Scenario as a Demonstration Example….Pages 325-330