Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?

We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – often referred to possessively as “your data” – are on...

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Main Authors: Mortier, Richard, Zhao, Jianxin, Crowcroft, Jon, Qi Li, Liang Wang, Haddadi, Hamed, Amar, Yousef, Crabtree, Andy, Colley, James, Lodge, Tom, Brown, Anthony, McAuley, Derek, Greenhalgh, Chris
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38641/
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author Mortier, Richard
Zhao, Jianxin
Crowcroft, Jon
Qi Li, Liang Wang
Haddadi, Hamed
Amar, Yousef
Crabtree, Andy
Colley, James
Lodge, Tom
Brown, Anthony
McAuley, Derek
Greenhalgh, Chris
author_facet Mortier, Richard
Zhao, Jianxin
Crowcroft, Jon
Qi Li, Liang Wang
Haddadi, Hamed
Amar, Yousef
Crabtree, Andy
Colley, James
Lodge, Tom
Brown, Anthony
McAuley, Derek
Greenhalgh, Chris
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description We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – often referred to possessively as “your data” – are only increasing with the long-heralded advent of the In- ternet of Things just the latest example. As a result, means to enable personal data management is generally recognised as a pressing societal issue. We have previously proposed that one such means might be realised by the Databox, a collection of physical and cloud- hosted software components that provide for an individual data subject to manage, log and audit access to their data by other parties. In this paper we elaborate on this proposal, describing the software architecture we are developing, and the current status of a prototype implementation. We con- clude with a brief discussion of Databox’s limitations.
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spelling nottingham-386412020-05-04T18:26:32Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38641/ Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box? Mortier, Richard Zhao, Jianxin Crowcroft, Jon Qi Li, Liang Wang Haddadi, Hamed Amar, Yousef Crabtree, Andy Colley, James Lodge, Tom Brown, Anthony McAuley, Derek Greenhalgh, Chris We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – often referred to possessively as “your data” – are only increasing with the long-heralded advent of the In- ternet of Things just the latest example. As a result, means to enable personal data management is generally recognised as a pressing societal issue. We have previously proposed that one such means might be realised by the Databox, a collection of physical and cloud- hosted software components that provide for an individual data subject to manage, log and audit access to their data by other parties. In this paper we elaborate on this proposal, describing the software architecture we are developing, and the current status of a prototype implementation. We con- clude with a brief discussion of Databox’s limitations. 2016-12-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Mortier, Richard, Zhao, Jianxin, Crowcroft, Jon, Qi Li, Liang Wang, Haddadi, Hamed, Amar, Yousef, Crabtree, Andy, Colley, James, Lodge, Tom, Brown, Anthony, McAuley, Derek and Greenhalgh, Chris (2016) Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box? In: ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking (CoNEXT 2016), 12 Dec 2016, Irvine, California, USA. Personal data management Edge network services http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3010079.3010082
spellingShingle Personal data management
Edge network services
Mortier, Richard
Zhao, Jianxin
Crowcroft, Jon
Qi Li, Liang Wang
Haddadi, Hamed
Amar, Yousef
Crabtree, Andy
Colley, James
Lodge, Tom
Brown, Anthony
McAuley, Derek
Greenhalgh, Chris
Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title_full Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title_fullStr Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title_full_unstemmed Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title_short Personal data management with the Databox: what’s inside the box?
title_sort personal data management with the databox: what’s inside the box?
topic Personal data management
Edge network services
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38641/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38641/