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A Typing System for Privacy

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Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2013)

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In this paper we report on work-in-progress towards defining a formal framework for studying privacy. Our framework is based on the \(\pi \)-calculus with groups [1] accompanied by a type system for capturing privacy-related notions. The typing system we propose combines a number of concepts from the literature: it includes the use of groups to enable reasoning about information collection, it builds on read/write capabilities to control information processing, and it employs type linearity to restrict information dissemination. We illustrate the use of our typing system via simple examples.

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    The terminology for read and write capabilities is equivalent with input and output terminology.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Dimitrios Kouzapas

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Anna Philippou

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Correspondence to Dimitrios Kouzapas .

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  1. Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

    Steve Counsell

  2. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Núñez

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Kouzapas, D., Philippou, A. (2014). A Typing System for Privacy. In: Counsell, S., Núñez, M. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05032-4_5

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