A novel approach for constructing privacy‐aware architecture utilizing Shannon's entropy

Abstract

SummaryThe right to privacy refers to an individual's decision about how personal information can be gathered, utilized, and disseminated. Individual consent and openness are the most important foundations for gaining consumers' confidence, and this pushes businesses to use privacy‐enhancing techniques while developing systems. The purpose of a privacy‐aware design is to safeguard data in such a manner that it does not expand an adversary's current understanding of an individual beyond what would be permitted. When these data pieces are coupled with the plethora of source data accessible outside the system to identify a user, this becomes crucial. Individual privacy is protected by privacy rules all around the globe, but they are often complicated and ambiguous, making their translation into practical and technologically privacy‐friendly structures difficult. The main contribution of this article is that we use Shannon's entropy (SE) to construct an objective measure that may guide our major technical design choices. And for privacy‐aware architecture, simplifying the state‐of‐the‐art security approaches given in the literature.