Abstract
An essential requirement of any information management system is to protect data and resources against breach or improper modifications, while at the same time ensuring data access to legitimate users. Systems handling personal data are mandated to track its flow to comply with data protection regulations. We have built a novel framework that integrates semantically rich data privacy knowledge graph with Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology, to develop an automated access-control and audit mechanism that enforces users' data privacy policies while sharing their data with third parties. Our blockchain based data-sharing solution addresses two of the most critical challenges: transaction verification and permissioned data obfuscation. Our solution ensures accountability for data sharing in the cloud by incorporating a secure and efficient system for End-to-End provenance. In this paper, we describe this framework along with the comprehensive semantically rich knowledge graph that we have developed to capture rules embedded in data privacy policy documents. Our framework can be used by organizations to automate compliance of their Cloud datasets.
Highlights
With the increasing adoption of cloud-based services, consumers and organizations are recognizing the need to be able to monitor, in real time, their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) residing on a Cloud service provider’s infrastructure
While identifying the critical privacy controls that should be specified by the privacy policy documents, we reviewed various standards and guidelines proposed for data security and privacy policy by organizations like the US National
Identifiable Information (PII) such as phone number, address, financial information such as bank account details and credit card details are regularly collected by service providers
Summary
With the increasing adoption of cloud-based services, consumers and organizations are recognizing the need to be able to monitor, in real time, their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) residing on a Cloud service provider’s infrastructure. Our key contribution in this work has been to integrate a machine processable policy framework with permissioned Blockchain to create a novel methodology that will facilitate automatic tracking and auditing of data that is shared among multiple stakeholders including consumers, providers, regulators, and third-party vendors This methodology uses technologies from the Semantic Web, permissioned. We have built a system that can parse privacy policy documents and capture the rules, privileges, and obligations governing PII sharing, and identify and track all data operations which take place This system will enable regulatory authorities, cloud service providers and end-users alike to access a transparent, verifiable and immutable ledger containing all data operations along with their validity.
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