Privacy Level Agreements for Public Administration Information Systems

Improving Public Administration (PA) operations and services is a major focus globally; they should be transparent, accountable and provide services that improve citizens' confidence and trust. In this context, it is important that PAs have the ability to define agreements between citizens and PAs and that such agreements can be used in the context of PAs Information Systems to specify citizens' privacy needs, provide feedback on data sharing and enable PA departments to analyse privacy threats and vulnerabilities, compliance with laws and regulations and analyse trust relationships. We propose the use of the concept of Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) to address the aforementioned issues. The PLA is formally specified, based on an XML schema, which enables its automated use

Supporting the Design of Privacy-Aware Business Processes via Privacy Process Patterns

Privacy is an increasingly important concern for modern software systems which handle personal and sensitive user information. Privacy by design has been established in order to highlight the path to be followed during a system’s design phase ensuring the appropriate level of privacy for the information it handles. Nonetheless, transitioning between privacy concerns identified early during the system’s design phase, and privacy implementing technologies to satisfy such concerns at the later development stages, remains a challenge. In order to overcome this issue, mainly caused by the lack of privacy-related expertise of software systems engineers, this work proposes a series of privacy process patterns. The proposed patterns encapsulate expert knowledge and provide predefined solutions for the satisfaction of different types of privacy concerns. The patterns presented in this work are used as a component of an existing privacy-aware system design methodology, through which they are applied to a real life system

Η προσέγγιση και συμπερίληψη της ετερότητας στο αναθεωρημένο πιλοτικό πρόγραμμα σπουδών του νηπιαγωγείου

Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επιχειρεί να προσεγγίσει την έννοια της ετερότητας στις διάφορες εκδοχές της στο αναθεωρημένο πιλοτικό αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα του νηπιαγωγείου. Το ερευνητικό ενδιαφέρον στρέφεται στο κατά πόσο το σύγχρονο νηπιαγωγείο, σε επίπεδο προγράμματος σπουδών, αναγνωρίζει, αποδέχεται και αναδεικνύει την ετερότητα ως στοιχείο εμπλουτισμού της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας συμπεριλαμβάνοντας ισότιμα στους κόλπους του τη γλώσσα, τις αξίες, τις ικανότητες, τις εμπειρίες και τις γνώσεις των «διαφορετικών» μαθητών και μαθητριών. Στο επίκεντρο τίθενται ο τρόπος νοηματοδότησης της ετερότητας και του «άλλου», η γνώση που κατασκευάζεται για αυτές τις κατηγορίες, η ανάδειξη της ετερότητας σε όλο το αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα, καθώς και ο εμπλουτισμός της σχολικής γνώσης και της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας µε διαφορετικά πολιτισμικά και κοινωνικά στοιχεία. Έτσι, επιχειρείται μια θεωρητική προσέγγιση των θεμάτων αυτών με κύριο χαρακτηριστικό την κοινωνικο-πολιτισμική διάσταση της διαφορετικότητας.The present dissertation attempts to approach the concept of “otherness” and its various types in the revised pilot curriculum of Early Childhood Education. The research interest focuses on whether the modern kindergarten recognizes, accepts and highlights diversity as an element of enrichment of the educational process, including in equal terms the language, the values, the skills, the experiences and the knowledge of the "different" students. The emphasis is given to the way in which “otherness” and “other” are perceived, to the knowledge that surrounds these notions, to the emergence of the diversity in the whole curriculum, and to the enrichment of the school knowledge and the educational process with different cultural and social elements. Thus, a theoretical approach to these issues is attempted, with the socio-cultural dimension of diversity being the main feature

Supporting Privacy by Design using Privacy Process Patterns

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have had significant impact on every-day life and have allowed us to share, store and manipulate information easily and at any time. On the other hand, such situation also raises important privacy concerns. To deal with such concerns, the literature has identified the need to introduce a Privacy by Design (PbD) approach to support the elicitation and analysis of privacy requirements and their implementation through appropriate Privacy Enhancing Technologies. However, and despite all the work presented in the literature, there is still a gap between privacy design and implementation. This paper presents a set of Privacy Process Patterns that can be used to bridge that gap. To demonstrate the practical application of such patterns, we instantiate them in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), we use them in conjunction with the Privacy Safeguard (PriS) methodology and we apply them to a real case study