Privacy Engineering: A Dataflow and Ontological Approach

Information privacy is the major defining issue of today's Internet enabled World. To construct information systems from small mobile 'apps' to huge, heterogeneous, cloudified systems requires merging together skills from software engineering, legal, security and many other disciplines - including some outside of these fields! Only through properly modelling the system under development can we full appreciate the complexity of where personal data and information flows; and more importantly, effectively communicate this.This book presents an approach based upon data flow modelling, coupled with standardised terminological frameworks, classifications and ontologies to properly annotate and describe the flow of information into, out of and across these systems. Also provided are structures and frameworks for the engineering process, requirements and audits; and even the privacy programme itself, but takes a pragmatic approach and encourages using and modifying the tools and techniques presented as the local context and needs require.

Author: Ian Oliver
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 07/18/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781497569713

About the Author
Dr Ian Oliver is a privacy officer and software engineer specialising in the construction of information systems with privacy as an inherent property. He has taken ideas from safety-critical systems development, aviation and medicine to better comprehend, understand and formalise an engineering approach that unifies the legal and engineering aspects of privacy together to make privacy relevant and implementable to the practising software engineer. He currently works for Nokia Networks and holds a Research Fellow position at the University of Brighton working with the Visual Modelling Group on diagrammatic forms of reasoning, description logics with the occasional foray into category theory. Prior to that as the privacy officer for Here and Nokia Services, and for eleven years at Nokia Research Centre working with Semantic Web, UML, formal methods and hardware-software co-design. He has also worked at Helsinki University of Technology and Aalto University teaching formal methods and modelling with UML. He holds 30 patents in areas such as The Internet of Things, semantic technologies and privacy. Ian lives in Sipoo, Finland with his wife, two children, dog and cat.

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