Transparency Enhancing Tools (TETs): An Overview

Janic, Milena; Wijbenga, Jan Pieter; Veugen, Thijs

doi:10.1109/stast.2013.11

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“…TETs attempt to provide a better understanding of privacy policies and an insight on third party's tracking behaviour. In so doing, TETs aim to promote security awareness [9].…”

Section: Transparency Enhancing Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…TETs should keep logs of what happens and inform a user when his/her security preferences are matched or when these are compromised. TETs should also offer functions that help a user to exert control over the personal data he/she has released [17] and should, in short, be proxies acting on the user's behalf and inform him/her when and how personal data are harvested, stored, and processed [9,18]. For all this, the need for TETs has been repeatedly recognized [9].…”

Section: Transparency Enhancing Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firesheep [9] FS An add-on that allows the user to retrieve cookies from people who have logged via insecure wireless networks. Provides transparency on user's own activities and demonstrates how easy user's login information can be stolen.…”

Section: Comparing Security Requirements With Tet's Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Panoptic lick [9] PA This tool tests user's browser to identify how unique the browser is, and therefore, easier to track.…”

Section: Comparing Security Requirements With Tet's Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Proposals believed to guarantee a degree of transparency do exist but in other domains than healthcare. Transparency Enhancing Tools (TETs), for instance, are meant to inform users about how their data are collected, stored, processed and disclosed by Internet service providers [9]. These are the tools that we intend to trail out in the medical domain.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Abstract. Patients that access their health records take more care of their health and, when in therapy, commit more seriously to improve their condition. This leads to a more effective and more efficient healthcare management, and is also in agreement with European directives on data protection. However, accessing medical data can be risky. Security should be assured and it should be evident to the patients, who has access to what data and any violation to patient's privacy requirements should be reported. We call this property transparency. Precisely this work looks into the Transparency Enhancing Tools that have been proposed to increase people's awareness about security and privacy on the Internet, and discusses to which extent these tools can empower transparency in healthcare.

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“…TETs attempt to provide a better understanding of privacy policies and an insight on third party's tracking behaviour. In so doing, TETs aim to promote security awareness [9].…”

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for connected vehicles in smart cities

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Many Experts believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a new revolution in technology that has brought many benefits for our organisations, businesses, and industries. However, information security and privacy protection are important challenges particularly for smart vehicles in smart cities that have attracted the attention of experts in this domain. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) endeavor to mitigate the risk of privacy invasions, but the literature lacks a thorough review of the approaches and techniques that support individuals' privacy in the connection between smart vehicles and smart cities. This gap has stimulated us to conduct this research with the main goal of reviewing recent privacy-enhancing technologies, approaches, taxonomy, challenges, and solutions on the application of PETs for smart vehicles in smart cities. The significant aspect of this study originates from the inclusion of data-oriented and process-oriented privacy protection. This research also identifies limitations of existing PETs, complementary technologies, and potential research directions.

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Legal Protection of Personal Data in Smart Grid and Smart Metering Systems from the European Perspective

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2015

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Smart grids are slowly becoming the future of worldwide energy generation and distribution and they promise, among other things, numerous environmental, and energy efficiency benefits to society. At the same time, however, they are capable of severely invading the inviolability of the most privacy-sensitive placethe home. Therefore, these concerns must be duly taken into consideration while deploying smart grids. This chapter provides an overview, from the European legal perspective, smart grids challenges to the fundamental rights to privacy, personal data protection, and the way Europe has addressed them. It pays special attention to the relevant regulatory requirements and to the means available to properly address these challenges, especially the data protection impact assessment (DPIA). It concludes by a few observations on the efficiency of the European approach. IntroductionSmart meters are digital versions of traditional mechanical utility meters that include a two-way communication capacity. They are currently most commonly used for electricity metering, but the principles can be applied to other utilities. These meters can transmit information directly from the metered property to the utility company, potentially in near-real time and with a much higher granularity of data. (By contrast, a traditional meter records the amount of electricity or gas used over a time period and can potentially distinguish between peak and off-peak hours based on a clock). Often, various smart meters in a neighbourhood form a mesh wireless network with a single collection point, which connects to the operating company over a phone line or the Internet. Smart meters are a component of the smart grid, a modernization of electrical infrastructure, with the intended effects of being more responsive to and better able to manage energy demands, and better able to integrate multiple sources of energy. Smart meters are typically the property of the distribution company, not the recipient householder or business. Distribution companies may be different to the electricity retailer, who bills the recipient.

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Transparency Enhancing Tools (TETs): An Overview

Cited by 54 publications

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Can Transparency Enhancing Tools Support Patient’s Accessing Electronic Health Records?

Can Transparency Enhancing Tools Support Patient’s Accessing Electronic Health Records?

Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for connected vehicles in smart cities

Legal Protection of Personal Data in Smart Grid and Smart Metering Systems from the European Perspective

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