Chain ontology based: a model for protecting personal information privacy

Privacy and personal information have penetrated all forms of today's business transactions such as banking and e-commerce to new forms of socializing online such as facebook, to ones own health records. In protecting such sensitive & private data several initiatives have been created in various forms from legislation, PIPED A to policies such as P3P. Unfortunately, none of these enforce protection of data. Recent solutions have emerged to enforce data privacy & protection such as the Hippocratic database. But this solution has proved complex in purpose wide range decision making. In this paper we bring forth a new idea that integrates personal information ontology with the concept of chains[l], in order to overcome the Hippocratic deficiencies. We demonstrate the idea with a prototype in the context of healthcare data management, a sector in which maintaining the privacy of individual information is of essential importance.