Privacy rights management

  • Guillaume Benats

    Student thesis: Master typesMaster in Computer science

    Abstract

    The rapid growth in smartphone usage has driven a global demand for mobile applications. This phenomenon has created new threats to the privacy of smartphone users because the ability to install and run diverse sets of applications on the same device makes it harder for users to understand how privacy configuration policies conflict with which other applications under different situations. Especially when privacy is concerned, detecting such conflicts is challenging because even end-users cannot always precisely describe their privacy requirements under these contexts. To meet the needs of representing privacy requirements and resolving potential conflicts in privacy policies, we propose to use an extension to the P-RBAC model, which allows us to reason about plausible scenarios and weaknesses of mobile systems. Also, in the same goal of repesentation and in a goal of porting rights expression languages to mobile applications, we will reason about ODRL, the rights expression language selected by the Open Mobile Alliance as a standard for mobile environments. We will study how we can express privacy requirements scenarios of mobile applications in such a language. This work has been evaluated using the case studies we conducted on several Android mobile applications.
    Date of Award2011
    Original languageEnglish
    Awarding Institution
    • University of Namur
    SupervisorJean-Noel Colin (Supervisor)

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