Jusletter IT

PRDLWorkflow – A Language-based Expert System for Data Privacy

  • Authors: Thomas Lampoltshammer / Thomas J. Heistracher / Sandro Kapeller
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Austria
  • Field of law: Advanced Legal Informatics Systems and Applications
  • Collection: Tagungsband-IRIS-2013
  • Citation: Thomas Lampoltshammer / Thomas J. Heistracher / Sandro Kapeller, PRDLWorkflow – A Language-based Expert System for Data Privacy, in: Jusletter IT 20 February 2013
Democratic societies and self-determined individuals claim for their right of data privacy. The European Commission and their associated regulations endorse this right. These regulations cause several implementation issues due to the fact that each Member State of the European Union has to implement its own national version, which results in various, not comparable and incomplete realizations. As a consequence, internationally operating small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to comply with these heterogeneous laws. One possibility of formally encoding law compliant Enterprise Privacy Policies (EPPs) is the so-called Privacy Rule Definition Language (PRDL), an artificial language developed within the ENDORSE project, funded in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The aim of the work at hand is to tackle compliance issues by introducing a wizard-based expert system, which assists Data Controllers in writing their EPPs. The bases for this wizard are workflow definitions, which are encoded into the system by the use of PRDLWorkflow, one of the three dialects of PRDL. These workflow definitions are interpreted by the system and then turned into browser-based wizards. It is envisioned that these wizards enable law experts to create, adopt and modify EPPs without the necessity of expert knowledge in the fields of software engineering and expert systems design. This newly created environment shall foster the correct adaption of regulations within enterprises, draw attention to regulation conflicts and guarantee uniformity throughout all subsidiaries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The ENDORSE Project
  • 3. PRDL Dialects
  • 4. PRDLWorkflow and Existing Law Information Systems
  • 5. PRDLWorkflow Schema
  • 6. PRDLWorkflow Language Elements
  • 7. PRDLWorkflow Architecture
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 9. Acknowledgment
  • 10. References

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