Engineering privacy by design

Applying PbD principles to the design of a system is challenging. We provided our experience and lessons learnt from applying the LINDDUN as a privacy assessment framework in the design of the architecture for a cloud-based identity wallet platform. In this effort, we identified a need to improve LINDDUN in a number of cases, for which we proposed and documented concrete enhancements. We transform LINDDUN from a linear to an iterative process that requires adaptation, introduce the concept of “Constraints” and add a new step in the mitigation of threats. Further, we consider the mitigation strategies of LINDDUN too narrow, and propose other, more practicable ones. Finally, we not only identify further PETs for mitigating privacy threats, but also acknowledge the fact that some threats cannot be effectively mitigated with PETs alone. Thus, we introduce additional mitigation mechanisms besides PETs, introducing especially development guidelines and organizational measures. We demonstrate our enhancements with concrete examples, which could serve also other engineering projects following the PbD paradigm.</p

Environment Sensors Measures Processing: Integrating Real-Time and Spreadsheet-Based Data Analysis

Environment and climate monitoring is one of the most compelling scenario of application for the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and methodologies. The chapter introduces and discusses an approach to Environment Sensors Measures data processing which aims at introducing into this domain novel concepts emerged in the technological area of the IoT and smart computing in general: data and resources sharing paradigm, collaborative frameworks for data analytics, end user computing based on spreadsheet tools, rapid prototyping of data "Mashups" and adaptive data processing. The approach has also led to the definition and implementation of a cloud-based prototype platform, which is also presented, currently deployed in the context of a geographic area showing critical environment-related aspects and fragilities