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Intra-Application Partitioning of Personal Data

, , , , , and . Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization (PEP'05), page 67--72. Edinburgh, UK, UC Irvine Institute for Software Research (ISR), (June 2005)

Abstract

Personalization provides users a comfortable working environment. But the necessary collection of personal data can imply privacy problems. Usual approaches to minimize privacy problems aim at separating data disclosed in different applications. However, this interapplication partitioning is not sufficient in case of large applications. Here we introduce the concept of intra-application partitioning of personal data by means of application-internal contexts. The description of such task-related contexts enables users to assess the linkability of their actions within the application. This approach helps users to control by themselves the linkability of their personal data.

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