Immutable Views -- Access control (to your information) for masses
This work addresses privacy and security issues for users storing personal data in cloud systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing personal cloud concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of implementing access control mechanisms in personal cloud systems for secure user data storage, proposing a method to facilitate these mechanisms across various proposals.
There are a lot of on going efforts in the research community as well as industry around providing privacy-preserving and secure storage for personal data. Although, over time it has adopted many tag lines such as Personal Information Hub [12], personal container [8], DataBox [4], Personal Data Store (PDS) [3] and many others, these are essentially reincarnations of a simple idea: provide a secure way and place for users to store their information and allow them to provision who has access to that information. In this paper, we would like to discuss a way to facilitate access control mechanism (AC) in the various "personal cloud" proposals.