Towards inherent privacy awareness in workflows

Abstract

This paper presents a holistic approach to the realisation of Privacy by Design in workflow environments, ensuring that workflow models are rendered privacy-aware already at their specification phase. In this direction, the proposed framework, considering the particular technical requirements stemming from data protection principles, is centred around the following features: a novel, ontology-based approach to workflow modelling, which manages, unlike all other existing technologies, to adequately capture privacy aspects pertaining to workflow execution; the appropriate codification of privacy requirements into compliance rules and directives; an automated procedure for the verification of workflow models and their subsequent transformation, if needed, so that they become inherently privacy-aware before being deployed for execution.