Privacy Things: Systematic Approach to Privacy and Personal Identifiable Information
This work addresses the need for a systematic structure to understand privacy and PII in computer science, which is incremental as it builds upon existing notions without introducing new methods or data.
The paper tackles the challenge of defining privacy and Personal Identifiable Information (PII) by developing a foundational framework for representing information privacy, introducing a coherent conceptualization based on diagrammatic representation and a flow-based model with generic operations on PII.
Defining privacy and related notions such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is a central notion in computer science and other fields. The theoretical, technological, and application aspects of PII require a framework that provides an overview and systematic structure for the discipline's topics. This paper develops a foundation for representing information privacy. It introduces a coherent conceptualization of the privacy senses built upon diagrammatic representation. A new framework is presented based on a flow-based model that includes generic operations performed on PII.