A Self-Governance Approach to Supporting Privacy Preference-based Content Sharing

: The increase in the creation and sharing of distributed multimedia content has led to the creation of new tools and methods to automatically and manually annotate content to assist in multimedia management. The content is often shared within communities and the owner has very little means to protect their content from misuse. This can become a problem when the annotations (metadata) are attached to the content as they provide more personal meaning to the content and thus can lead to privacy concerns. However, there are no tools available to manage content in the way it was intended to be used e.g. carrying privacy preference intention with the content and assisting the user in creating appropriate content access preferences with their community. This paper provides an overview of the issues faced in distributed personal content management from a user view, the current state of the art to deal with the increasing risk in privacy issues for the digital user, and the design of contextua...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: ITSSA
• Authors: Patricia Charlton, Jonathan Teh
• Keywords: Content Access Preferences, Content Management, ITSSA 2006, Personal Content Management