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An approach to early evaluation of informational privacy requirements

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Balbir S. Barn,

Giuseppe Primiero,

Ravinder BarnAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1370 - 1375

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2695788

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The widespread availability of information in the digital age places a significant demand on the privacy needs of individuals. However, privacy considerations in requirements management are often treated as non-functional concerns and in particular, early feedback of privacy concerns is not easily embedded into current requirements practice. Luciano Floridi's Ontological Theory of Informational Privacy presents an extensive interpretation of informational privacy using concepts such as ontological friction. This paper first recasts the theory in terms of modelling constructs and then applies the theory in the form of a Bayesian network of beliefs in the context of an existing research project aimed at developing socio-technical system delivered as a mobile app in the UK youth justice system. The operationalisation of the theory and its relationship to value sensitive design creates opportunities for early evaluation of informational privacy concerns in the requirements process.

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Primiero GBarn BBarn R(2020)Value-Sensitive Co-Design for Resilient Information SystemsStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric10.2478/slgr-2020-003263:1(141-164)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0032
Bawden DRobinson L(2020)“The dearest of our possessions”: Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacyJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.24367Online publication date: 19-May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24367
Barn RBarn B(2019)Youth Justice in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Challenges and Opportunities of Social Technology in Their Techno-Habitat in the United KingdomYouth Justice10.1177/147322541986956819:3(185-205)Online publication date: 18-Aug-2019
https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225419869568
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An approach to early evaluation of informational privacy requirements
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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Primiero GBarn BBarn R(2020)Value-Sensitive Co-Design for Resilient Information SystemsStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric10.2478/slgr-2020-003263:1(141-164)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0032
Bawden DRobinson L(2020)“The dearest of our possessions”: Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacyJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.24367Online publication date: 19-May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24367
Barn RBarn B(2019)Youth Justice in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Challenges and Opportunities of Social Technology in Their Techno-Habitat in the United KingdomYouth Justice10.1177/147322541986956819:3(185-205)Online publication date: 18-Aug-2019
https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225419869568
Barn BBarn R(2016)An Exploration of Resilience and Values in the Co-Design of Sociotechnical SystemsInternational Journal of Systems and Society10.4018/IJSS.20160101013:1(1-17)Online publication date: Jan-2016
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Barn BBarn RRaimondi FBertolino ACanfora GElbaum S(2015)On the role of value sensitive concerns in software engineering practiceProceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 210.5555/2819009.2819086(497-500)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
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