Privacy Enforcement in E-Services Environments

Abstract

This chapter presents technological measures for privacy enforcement (techniques that can be used to ensure that an organization’s privacy promises will be kept). It gives an introduction to the current state of technological privacy enforcement measures for e-services environments, proposes a comprehensive privacy enforcement architecture, and discusses some remaining issues and challenges related to privacy enforcement solutions. The goal of the proposed architecture, aside from integrating many of the current isolated technologies, is to ensure consistency between advertised privacy promises and actual privacy practices at the e-service provider Web site so that users can have greater confidence that their personal data will be safeguarded.