This post is a summary of “A Systematic Mapping Study on Software Quality Control Techniques for Assessing Privacy in Information Systems”, which is available here. The major result of this systematic mapping study is the identification and classification of existing SQC techniques that detect privacy-related anomalies during the development process of software-based information systems (IS). […]
Read More →This post is a summary of the study on “Data flow analysis tools for GDPR accountability compliance”, conducted together with the Spanish Data Protection Agency and available at https://www.aepd.es/sites/default/files/2019-09/estudio-flujos-informacion-android.pdf. This will be the first of a series of posts about looking at the behaviour of Android applications (“apps”) and analysing privacy and data protection aspects. […]
Read More →This note is a summary of the paper “A framework and roadmap for enhancing the application of privacy design patterns” [1]. Privacy patterns have gained a lot of attention to the realization of the Privacy by Design paradigm and the development of privacy-friendly information systems [2][3]. Despite of being not mature enough, they and proposals […]
Read More →In previous posts, we talked about general aspects of what is privacy and who cares that. Two important terms in that field are “privacy” and “data protection.” While the first one is very common in the literature, the other is used in the European Union (EU) laws and regulations. Also, some ICT professionals often use “data protection” and “information […]
Read More →Privacy is not just a policy nor is data security, although they are related concepts. It is related to your data, and who, when and how it can be collected, processed, transferred, controlled, and so on. But not only your data, it is about you as a person, your behavior, your communication (Clarke, 1999), even your […]
Read More →If somebody would ask you if you have read the privacy policy when you install an app in your smartphone or when you subscribe in a web page, probably your answer would be no. Aaron Smith in (Smith, 2014) reports a result from a poll in which 52% of polled people agree with the assertion […]
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