The PIPWatch toolbar: Combining PIPEDA, PETs and market forces through social navigation to enhance privacy protection and compliance

Author

Clement, Andrew ; Ley, David ; Costantino, Terry ; Kurtz, Dan ; Tissenbaum, Mike

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper describes the prototype development of the PIPWatch toolbar, a software interface device embedded within a Web browser designed to enable consumers to easily assess and compare the compliance of on-line businesses with Canadian private-sector privacy legislation - the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. (PIPEDA). It represents a new form of privacy enhancing technology (PET) that employs social navigation techniques to help an on-line community of individuals concerned about the handling of their personal information to build and share a database that tracks the privacy performance and regulatory compliance of Websites they visit.

Keywords

data privacy; online front-ends; user interfaces; Canadian private-sector privacy legislation; PIPWatch toolbar; Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act; Web browser; market forces; privacy enhancing technology; privacy protection enhancement; prototype development; social navigation; Consumer electronics; Data privacy; Databases; Embedded software; Legislation; Navigation; Positron emission tomography; Protection; Software prototyping; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology and Society, 2008. ISTAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fredericton, NB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1669-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1670-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTAS.2008.4559759

Filename

4559759