Why should semantic technologies
pay more attention to privacy...
and vice-versa
Mathieu d’Aquin
@mdaquin
Semantic Technologies
Are about data and knowledge
representations to make them
interpretable and usable by
machines, across the web.
Linked
Data
Even AT The OU
data.open.ac.uk
Ontologies
As shared
representation of the
meaning of the data.
The Semantic Web
Data
Linked Data
Semantic Web
WHat does that has to do with Privacy?
Transparency and Privacy go well together
On the
Web
things
might
get more
complex
On the
Web
things
might
get more
complex
Using a Local logging Proxy
Using a Local logging Proxy
d'Aquin, M., Elahi, S. and Motta, E. (2010)
Personal Monitoring of Web Information
Exchange: Towards Web Lifelogging, Web
Science 2010
From Personal Data to Trust
d'Aquin, M., Elahi, S. and Motta, E. (2010) Semantic Monitoring of Personal Web
Activity to Support the Management of Trust and Privacy, SPOT @ ESWC 2010
Transparency
through Personal
Analytics
The UCIAD personal analytics
dashboard: Showing their
activity data to users.
User study to investigate
implication on privacy for
the user and the
organisation.
Thomas, K. (2014) Privacy Implications of
Online Consumer-Activity Data: An Empirical
Study, Privacy Online @ ISWC 2014
Making it more
complex
There are some obvious
privacy nightmares… for
to make sense of.
Basic FAcebook Ontology (extract)
Example of Epistemic rules
Ka Post(X) :- author(X, a)
Ka Post(X) :- scope(X, All_friends), author(X, b), friend(b,a)
Ka Post(X) :- friend(a,b), includes(X,b)
Ka wasIn(P,Y) :- includes(X,Y), in(X,P), Ka Post(X)
Ka wasWith(X,Y) :- includes(P,X), includes(P,Y), Ka Post(X)
EPIFABO
d'Aquin, M. and Thomas, K. (2013) Modeling and Reasoning Upon Facebook Privacy Settings, Demo at
International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC
Ongoing stuff
Personal analytics and ontological reasoning for learning analytics
(new H2020 project AFEL - Analytics for Everyday Learning)
Ontologies and Linked Data to handle the process of curating data,
including for terms of use (licences) and data protection.
http://dpachecker.kmi.open.ac.uk/ http://data.open.ac.uk/licence-picker/
MK Data Hub - MK:Smart
Triple Store RDBMS NoSQL DB
DataCatalogue
AuthorisationServer
Data Compilation
Developper
policies
policiesdata
Locations Stats
Events Sensor
Social
media
d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014)
DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities
@ISWC2014
Triple Store RDBMS NoSQL DB
DataCatalogue
AuthorisationServer
Data Compilation
Developper
policies
policiesdata Rights?
Locations Stats
Events Sensor
Social
media
d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014)
DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities
@ISWC2014
MK Data Hub - MK:Smart
MK Data Hub - MK:Smart
Locations Stats
Events Sensor
Social
media
Triple Store RDBMS NoSQL DB
DataCatalogue
AuthorisationServer
Data Compilation
Developper
policies
policiesdata Rights?
Privacy Impact
Assessment?
d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014)
DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities
@ISWC2014
Thank you!
Alessandro
Adamou
Enrico
Daga
Carlo
Allocca
Shuangyan
Liu
Keerthi
Thomas
Ilaria
Tiddi
Emanuele
Bastianelli

Why should semantic technologies pay more attention to privacy... and vice-versa

  • 1.
    Why should semantictechnologies pay more attention to privacy... and vice-versa Mathieu d’Aquin @mdaquin
  • 2.
    Semantic Technologies Are aboutdata and knowledge representations to make them interpretable and usable by machines, across the web.
  • 3.
  • 5.
    Even AT TheOU data.open.ac.uk
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8.
    WHat does thathas to do with Privacy?
  • 9.
    Transparency and Privacygo well together
  • 10.
  • 11.
  • 12.
    Using a Locallogging Proxy
  • 13.
    Using a Locallogging Proxy d'Aquin, M., Elahi, S. and Motta, E. (2010) Personal Monitoring of Web Information Exchange: Towards Web Lifelogging, Web Science 2010
  • 14.
    From Personal Datato Trust d'Aquin, M., Elahi, S. and Motta, E. (2010) Semantic Monitoring of Personal Web Activity to Support the Management of Trust and Privacy, SPOT @ ESWC 2010
  • 15.
    Transparency through Personal Analytics The UCIADpersonal analytics dashboard: Showing their activity data to users. User study to investigate implication on privacy for the user and the organisation. Thomas, K. (2014) Privacy Implications of Online Consumer-Activity Data: An Empirical Study, Privacy Online @ ISWC 2014
  • 16.
    Making it more complex Thereare some obvious privacy nightmares… for to make sense of.
  • 17.
  • 18.
    Example of Epistemicrules Ka Post(X) :- author(X, a) Ka Post(X) :- scope(X, All_friends), author(X, b), friend(b,a) Ka Post(X) :- friend(a,b), includes(X,b) Ka wasIn(P,Y) :- includes(X,Y), in(X,P), Ka Post(X) Ka wasWith(X,Y) :- includes(P,X), includes(P,Y), Ka Post(X)
  • 19.
    EPIFABO d'Aquin, M. andThomas, K. (2013) Modeling and Reasoning Upon Facebook Privacy Settings, Demo at International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC
  • 20.
    Ongoing stuff Personal analyticsand ontological reasoning for learning analytics (new H2020 project AFEL - Analytics for Everyday Learning) Ontologies and Linked Data to handle the process of curating data, including for terms of use (licences) and data protection. http://dpachecker.kmi.open.ac.uk/ http://data.open.ac.uk/licence-picker/
  • 21.
    MK Data Hub- MK:Smart Triple Store RDBMS NoSQL DB DataCatalogue AuthorisationServer Data Compilation Developper policies policiesdata Locations Stats Events Sensor Social media d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014) DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities @ISWC2014
  • 22.
    Triple Store RDBMSNoSQL DB DataCatalogue AuthorisationServer Data Compilation Developper policies policiesdata Rights? Locations Stats Events Sensor Social media d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014) DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities @ISWC2014 MK Data Hub - MK:Smart
  • 23.
    MK Data Hub- MK:Smart Locations Stats Events Sensor Social media Triple Store RDBMS NoSQL DB DataCatalogue AuthorisationServer Data Compilation Developper policies policiesdata Rights? Privacy Impact Assessment? d'Aquin,M.,Adamou,A.,Daga,E.,Liu,S.,Thomas,K.andMotta,E.(2014) DealingwithDiversityinaSmart-CityDatahub,SemanticsforSmarterCities @ISWC2014
  • 24.