Security Model for Informational Privacy

Private/personal information is defined as any linguistic expression that has referent(s) of type natural person. Private information can be classified as: (1) atomic private information is an assertion that has a single human referent, and (2) compound private information is an assertion that has more than one human referent. If p is a piece of atomic private information of person v, then p is proprietary private information of v, and v is itsproprietor. A possessor refers to any agent that knows, stores, or owns the information [2].

Authors and Affiliations

1. Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University, Kuwait

   Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

   Hsinchun Chen

2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

   Fei-Yue Wang

3. Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

   Christopher C. Yang

4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA

   Daniel Zeng

5. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

   Michael Chau

6. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

   Kuiyu Chang

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