Privacy Preservation Approach in Service Ecosystems

Abstract

Emergence of business networking and social networking increases the exchange of sensitive information and creation of behaviour traces in the network. However, the current computing and communication solutions do not provide sufficient conceptual, architectural or technical facilities to preserve privacy while collaborating in the network. This paper enhances definition on privacy-related concepts to become sufficient for open service ecosystems, and finally introduces a privacypreservation architecture with emphasis on usability, sustainability against threats, and reasonable cost of establishment and utilisation. As this architecture introduces new categories of tools for privacy preservation, it is significant also as a roadmap or maturity model.

Enhancing the Maturity of Open Service Ecosystems and Inter-enterprise Collaborations

“…Trust decisions are subjective evaluations made by the trustor, targeting a given trustee and a given action in terms of standard assets shared between organizations: monetary, reputation, control and satisfaction [3]. We define privacy as the right of subjects to determine themselves for whom, for what purpose, to what extent, and how information about them, or information held by them, is communicated to others [16]. Here, the subject can be a person, social group organisation or organisational group.…”

“…The reputation information becomes available for future trust-decisions throughout the ecosystem. Therefore, a dynamic incentive mechanism is effectively created for ecosystem members to keep to their service offers and eContract commitments (including privacy rules), and especially to the reporting protocols [3,16].…”