Effective Access Control Mechanism for Protection of Sensitive Personal Information

In order to provide the efficient personalized services, the organizations and the companies collect and manage the personal information. The stored data have some slight differences among each subject. Even though the same attribute information leaks out, the personal privacy violation is different according to personal sensitivity. However, currently the organizations or the companies protect all the information as the same level. This paper reflects the sensitive attribute information of the information subject to each personal policy by the encrypting techniques. And then we propose a policy-based access control mechanism for the personal information which strictly prevents unauthorized information users from illegally accessing the personal information. In the proposed mechanism, the individuals' personal information which is encrypted with different keys is stored into the database. For the access control, information subjects set up their own access control policy for their sensitive personal information. Then it is possible to control the information access by providing the information to the information users according to personal and organizational privacy policy.