LSRI: Ensuring Personal Data Remains Personal in Next Generation Internet Computing Applications

Angela Smallwood and Tom Kirkham
University of Nottingham

The EU Framework 7 project TAS³ (Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services) aims to create a service infrastructure that will place the user in control of the use of their personal data in service orientated distributed computing environments at all times. The TAS³ implementation at the University of Nottingham is supporting a regional student placement scheme which will provide students with automated placement matching and management services from various service providers. The objective is to use TAS³ technology to allow users to track use of data extracted from their ePortfolios in other applications. We aim to allow users to be able to monitor how their data is used and by whom, and even to recall it.

The system is managed in real time using Policy Enforcement Points (PEP) and Policy Decision Points (PDP) linked to a user Dashboard via a specifically designed Audit Bus. This framework informs users about how their data is being used once it is extracted from the original data store (i.e. social networking site or ePortfolio). The rules of the framework are based on a trust model; separate services that manage trust in TAS³ work in tandem with service negotiation and discovery services. The results of the implementation were demonstrated to the European Commission at the formal project review in March 2010. The demonstrator showed successfully how a user can control the use of their personal data when it is extracted from the original hosted environment. The TAS³ framework is being applied in other domains, including Healthcare, and has the potential to revolutionise how personal data use on the internet is viewed.

This event will be live streamed via http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/live/

This seminar will take place in Room 35a, Flexible Learning Room, LSRI, The Exchange, Jubilee Campus