Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?

Mortier, Richard; Zhao, Jianxin; Crowcroft, Jon; Wang, Liang; Qi, Li; Haddadi, Hamed; Amar, Yousef; Crabtree, Andy; Colley, James; Lodge, Tom; Brown, Anthony; McAuley, Derek; Greenhalgh, Chris

Abstract

We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – often referred to possessively as “your data” – are only increasing with the long-heralded advent of the In- ternet of Things just the latest example. As a result, means to enable personal data management is generally recognised as a pressing societal issue. We have previously proposed that one such means might be realised by the Databox, a collection of physical and cloud- hosted software components that provide for an individual data subject to manage, log and audit access to their data by other parties. In this paper we elaborate on this proposal, describing the software architecture we are developing, and the current status of a prototype implementation. We con- clude with a brief discussion of Databox’s limitations.

Citation

Mortier, R., Zhao, J., Crowcroft, J., Wang, L., Qi, L., Haddadi, H., …Greenhalgh, C. (2016). Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?. In CAN 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking (49-54). https://doi.org/10.1145/3010079.3010082

• Conference Name: ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking 2016
• Conference Location: Irvine, California, USA
• Start Date: Dec 12, 2016
• End Date: Dec 12, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Oct 9, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 12, 2016
• Deposit Date: Aug 22, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 22, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 49-54
• Book Title: CAN 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-4673-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3010079.3010082
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/835633
• Publisher URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3010079.3010082