Recommender-based privacy requirements elicitation - EPICUREAN

Due to the Internet of Things (IoT), a giant leap towards a quantified self is made, i. e., more and more aspects of our lives are being captured, processed, and analyzed. This has many positive implications, e. g., Smart Health services help to relieve patients as well as physicians and reduce treatment costs. However, the price for such services is the disclosure of a lot of private data. For this reason, Smart Health services were particularly considered by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): a data subject's explicit consent is required when such a service processes his or her data. However, the elicitation of privacy requirements is a shortcoming in most IoT privacy systems. Either the user is overwhelmed by too many options or s/he is not sufficiently involved in the decision process. For this reason, we introduce EPICUREAN, a recommender-based privacy requirements elicitation approach. EPICUREAN uses modeling and data mining techniques to determine and recommend appropriate privacy settings to the user. The user is thus considerably supported but remains in full control over his or her private data.