Abstract
Future generation networks target collecting intelligence from multiple sources based on end-users' data and their social interaction in order to draw useful conclusions on enabling users to execute their rights to online privacy. These networks form a rising class of service-oriented broker platforms. Designers and providers of such network platforms during the design and development of their systems focus primarily on technical specifications and issues. However, given the importance and richness of user information collected, they should already at the design phase take into account legal and ethical requirements. Failure to do so, may result in privacy violations, which may, in turn, affect the success of the network due to increasing awareness with respect to users’ privacy and security concerns, and may incur future costs. In this paper, we show how the di.me system balanced technical and legal requirements through both its design and implementation, while building a decentralized social networking platform. We report on our advances and experiences through a prototypical technology realizing such a platform, analyze the legal implications within the EU legal framework, and provide recommendations and conclusions for user-friendly service-oriented broker platforms.
Highlights
Human beings in the modern, data-driven era are increasingly dependent on technology and systems to make information available for different purposes, with wide-ranging implications on society
Di.me is a distributed online social networks (OSNs), which serves as a personal information broker platform. It operates as a digital identity management tool, allowing users to maintain an overview of their data across various supported online services, such as LinkedIn or Twitter.di.me operates as a privacyenhancing technology (PET) platform, by intelligently warning users when their online interactions involving data may lead to undesirable consequences
Introducing law and ethics as core values during the requirements and design phase of di.me resulted in a distributed OSN implementation that does not conflict with the EU right to privacy, and is not contrary to exploitation interests of potential network operators
Summary
Human beings in the modern, data-driven era are increasingly dependent on technology and systems to make information available for different purposes, with wide-ranging implications on society. Such technology needs to support transparent, conscious decision-making processes in order to earn (end-) users’ trust and assist knowledge workers in gathering multiple perspectives and qualitative insights to form useful knowledge [1]. Today in several respects and have been often criticized for establishing complicating user interfaces in order to discourage users from making informed choices about the handling of their personal information, which this paper addresses
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