OPERANDO

Project Objectives

However, there are some concerns. Of course, there may be concern that critical services becomes dependent on a third party, and this was identified as a major concern (fourth out of a list of ten). That's not all. At number five in the top ten is a concern that the government will have access to data. But that's not really just about Cloud computing. More importantly though is a concern about the inadvertent disclosure or security risks with critical data. This was rated as the top concern. This is a particular concern in areas such as healthcare and social care, where the data captured and shared is likely to be highly sensitive and the risks of data protection breaches are high, potentially undermining user privacy and leaving service providers with substantial liabilities.

There's a balance to be struck, therefore, between the benefits of cost reduction and sharing resources on the one hand and the risks of lost or compromised data. OPERANDO addresses these concerns for the main stakeholders in online service provision. OPERANDO will design and develop as well as validate and exploit an innovative privacy enforcement platform in support of Privacy as a Service type business models.

Specific field trials will be conducted in public administration, health- and social care, using the OPERANDO privacy enforcement framework to provide greater control and transparency to data subjects (the clients) themselves, facilitate engagement and open communication between service users and their support network, and in so doing create a broad, open market for online privacy services. At the same time, of course, OPERANDO will provide new mechanisms and support for other stakeholders: service providers will be able to specify and enforce user-centric access rights, whilst also predicting future challenges; and regulators will be able to check whether or not appropriate compliance has been met and more importantly, validate who has been given access to sensitive data.