Xiaojun Shen, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE)
Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada
Although e-Commerce systems have progressed over the past few years, they lack important aspects such as building long-term and profitable relationships with customers and facilitating an environment that encourages buyers to buy more. The actual execution of e-Commerce today is too different from its real-life counterpart, and for the most part it?s a "Web page" with listing of items and prices. Providing an e- Commerce system that brings on-line shopping closer to the actual experience that people have in a real life environment would bring the system closer to the concept of ?e-communities?. In privacy-preserved communities, the system adheres to basic user protection and privacy principles along existing legal norms. This paper presents a Kerberos-based protocol for controlling and accessing privacy-preserved information from networked applications. Our approach is novel in that it incorporates a number of legal privacy requirements into the technical design of the system itself. To our knowledge this work is the only e-Commerce e-community based solution built specifically to meet the requirements of privacy legislation, and designed to be controlled by a third commonly trusted application.
Citation:
Chris Desmarais, Xiaojun Shen, Shervin Shirmohammadi, Alex Cameron, Nicolas D. Georganas, Ian Kerr, "PLUTO - A Privacy Control Protocol for e-Commerce Communities," cec-eee, pp.349-356, The 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 4th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC-EEE 2007), 2007