Privacy: A Social Bridge Enabling E-Commerce researchers in dal's e-Privacy Lab are working on ways to uplift privacy “Without security and privacy, consumers will not trust…We are counting on the digital economy for jobs and growth in EU,” said
Paul Timmers, Director of the Sustainable and Secure Society Directorate DG CONNECT, European Commission, in Athens 2014. Dr. Peter Bodorik (Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science), Dr. Dawn Jutla (Saint Mary’s Sobey School of Business and adjunct professor to Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science) and graduate research students in the e-Privacy Lab are working on research that has an international impact on the emerging field of privacy engineering. Their work is helping inform the nascent privacy engineering field from technical, organizational, user, and governance perspectives. Privacy not only enables online commerce, but it protects the human right to be left alone and to control the dissemination of information. Privacy engineering is important in its promise to help shape increasingly online civil societies as well as support economic renewal from digital economies. In the e-Privacy Lab, research and development is conducted on the architectures, methods, methodologies, and
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management building blocks for privacy and e-commerce. The team is translating their know-how into tools for privacy-enabling start-ups and larger businesses. Privacy Engineering and Big Data The digitization of vast quantities of information leads to the collaboration of many stakeholders to develop shared
standards-based interoperable platforms. This convergence supports the efficient analysis and flow of information to accelerate new discoveries. But significant discipline-based communication gaps exist among policymakers, businesses and software engineers. Where policymakers leverage rich textual language, software engineers comSystem
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Figure 1: One software engineer’s visual for embedding privacy into IBM Watson’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Treatment applications.