Privacy-Preserving Management of Personal Data For Assisted-Living Applications

Kounga, Gina ; Casassa Mont, Marco ; Bramhall, Pete

HP Development Company

关键词: Assisted-living;    access control;    privacy;    consent;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2010-200

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

The increasing proportion of elderly people in most industrialised countries introduces new challenges. One of these is the provision of efficient and cost- effective caring. Assisted-living solutions use technological tools to allow medical care to be remotely provided to individuals and to provide monitoring capabilities permitting carers and medical authorities to observe and monitor individuals' health states. However, the provision of remote care requires personal data to be collected about individuals with pervasive technologies. Therefore, suitable assisted- living solutions should protect individuals' privacy. In this paper, we propose a solution providing a privacy-aware management of personal data in such scenarios. The proposed solution relies on a communication box, located at the individuals, which automatically protects individuals' privacy based on their consent. It further relies on access control components which guarantees that the entities involved in the provision of remote care always manage individuals' personal data as consented by these individuals.