Owner-Controlled Towards Personal Information Stored in Hippocratic Database

Abstract

Privacy protection has become one of the important requirement in web-based information system that deal with personal information. There are an issues arise that personal information collected should be privacy-protected. Owner should know to what extent information about them has been collected, how it’ll used and able to control their own information. Hippocratic Database (HDB) introduced by Agrawal, et al. (2002) is a relational database system that has been proposed in order to protect the privacy at database level. Hippocratic Database used the purpose as a central concept in the database development. But, currently with the notion of purpose, owner is unable to control his/her PI stored in HDB regardless they are able to. This paper discussed and introduced an initial architecture of owner-controlled Hippocratic Database