Protecting Privacy During A Pandemic Outbreak

Respecting privacy is a major challenge when sharing data among enterprises. Because of the high stakes and complexity, enterprises need expressive and clear methods for defining tailored data sharing so that they can share the right information with the right partners with confidence. This paper describes a privacy-oriented declarative policy framework together with an intuitive user interface to manage data sharing policies. It introduces a use case about a pandemic outbreak, in which the system can be used to share relevant information with partners to ensure that help can be coordinated quickly and effectively, while at the same time ensuring that the privacy of individuals remains protected and not sharing overly widely. A set of privacy policies is introduced to describe how the policy system can meet these requirements.