Agniva Banerjee,  UMBC
11:00-12:00 Monday, 2 April 2018

Cloud-based content providers, utilities, and applications, each employ of privacy policies and its associated overhead, it is becoming increasingly difficult for concerned users to manage and track the confidential information that they share with the providers. Users consent to providers to gather and share their Personally Identifiable Information (PII). We have developed a novel framework to ingest a text-based privacy policy document, intelligently parse and extract relevant terms and populate a privacy policy ontology, and thereafter automatically track details about how a user’s PII data is stored, used and shared by the provider. We have integrated this Data Privacy ontology with the properties of blockchain, to develop an automated access-control and audit mechanism that enforces users’ data privacy policies when sharing their data across third parties.

Agniva Banerjee, and Karuna Pande Joshi, Link Before You Share: Managing Privacy Policies through Blockchain, 4th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2017), in conjunction with 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 4 December 2017.