Privacy Enhanced Authorizations and Data Handling

The protection of privacy is an increasing concern in today’s global infrastructure. Many research efforts have been therefore devoted to the development of privacy protecting technology. In particular, as an important step for helping users to maintain control over the use of their personal information, current access control solutions have to be enriched with the ability of supporting privacy requirements. In this position paper, we outline some emerging requirements and R&D challenges of privacy protection related to access control and discuss how they should be addressed in the framework of a comprehensive approach to privacy-aware access control .