The use of cloud computing services has developed into a new method for deploying software and services and hosting data. The model has provided enormous social and economic benefits but at the same time it has also created potential privacy and security challenges for businesses, individuals and the governments. For example, the use of shared compute environment, data storage and access via in...

In [13] Dutch government proposes an identity scheme supporting personal data exchange of pupils with private e-textbook publishers. This design propagates sharing personal numbers of pupils among private parties violating the data minimisation principle in privacy laws. We describe a privacy friendly alternative, giving pupils (and parents) control on exchange of their personal data. Three gen...

Despite the wide array of frameworks proposed for the formal specification and analysis of privacy laws, there has been comparatively little work on expressing large fragments of actual privacy laws in these frameworks. We attempt to bridge this gap by presenting what we believe to be the most complete logical formalizations of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Health Insurance Portabil...

The cloud computing platform provides utility computing allowing people to have convenient and flexible information sharing services on the web. We investigate the inter-disciplinary area of information technology and law and use semantics-enabled policies for modeling legal regulations in the cloud. The semantics-enabled policies of information sharing and protection are represented as a combi...

Addressing privacy issues and concerns are important for organisations when interacting with online customers, and customers are increasingly demanding better transparency about how their personal information could be collected and used. Many organisations are informing users about their privacy practices through an online privacy notice, policy or statement. These privacy notices should reflec...

This article presents a legal overview of privacy and autonomy considerations related to children in the context of health information technology adoption and use. All uses of health-related technologies take place within a legal framework that guides health care generally; the privacy laws and autonomy principles long predate health information technology and can be expected to shape its desig...

From the early days of the information economy, personal data has been its most valuable asset. Despite data protection laws, companies trade personal information and often intrude on the privacy of individuals. As a result, consumers feel out of control and lose trust in electronic environments. Technologists and regulators are struggling to develop solutions that meet businesses’ demand for m...