PrivateMe: Managing Privacy in Multiple Applications and Devices

Applications that tailor information to the user rely on data being collected and communicated. This may lead to privacy concerns about personal data and how it can be used. Even when privacy controls are available, it is not always clear which settings control the data collection. Furthermore, with the volume of data that is being collected, it is not always obvious how the data is collected.
Other researchers have proposed solutions to assist the user to manage privacy. Yet there is a need for a solution that will support privacy management on different devices, for multiple applications and web services. PrivateMe includes a privacy goal model to capture privacy goals, a generic taxonomy of privacy settings and permissions, and an ontology to store reusable knowledge about how the privacy settings and permissions interact. PrivateMe is evaluated with three use cases that show its applicability to managing privacy on multiple devices.