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Designing A Publish-Subscribe Substrate For Privacy
Designing A Publish-Subscribe Substrate For Privacy
Used for :
Tracking objects
Tracking people
Determine user behaviour
Problem
Maybe individuals do not wish to have their
movements available to everyone.
Problem
System description
The focus is on publishers being able to
control who receives their data and under
what terms.
System description
incorporating policies
Basic definitions
Event owner
Application
Authorizer
Licensee
Condition
Signature
Basic definitions
Condition rules may use a combination of
event attributes and external attributes
(current time, number of events received).
Access control
Actions that can be performed in our
system :
No-control
Subscribe-time
Receive-time
Receive-Subscribe-time
Delegation of rights
Each owner usually receives the right to
publish, subscribe, receive and change
policy for the events/event types he owns.
Delegation of rights
Problem : but Joe may not want Alice to
pass these rights to another user.
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Application & system
architecture
Policy rules
Policy rules
Conclusion
The following types of access control and
privacy policies can be formalized in this
system :