Privacy Layer Enforcement for Selective OSI Data Decryption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems lack effective means to enforce and assure privacy agreements between users and service providers, leading to biased data sharing and manipulation, with existing OSI architecture requiring additional hardware and compromising objectivity.
Innovation Solution
An extended OSI architecture with a privacy layer that encrypts and decrypts data segments based on privacy and usage policies, ensuring only matching data is decrypted while non-matching data is marked or nullified, using a privacy settlement bureau to manage policies and enforce compliance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional OSI architecture is used for data communication, then interoperability and standardization are achieved, but privacy enforcement capability is lost and additional hardware is required
Solution Approach 1:
A privacy layer is introduced as an intermediary between the existing OSI architecture and the data communication process. This privacy layer acts as a mediator that enforces privacy policies without requiring fundamental changes to the underlying OSI infrastructure, thus achieving privacy enforcement capability while avoiding additional hardware requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The privacy layer is nested within the existing OSI architecture rather than replacing it entirely. This allows the privacy enforcement functionality to be embedded within the standard communication protocol stack, utilizing existing hardware and infrastructure while adding the necessary privacy control capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If data sharing is enabled between users, then communication functionality is improved, but privacy violations and data manipulation occur
Solution Approach 1:
Privacy policies are established and enforced before data sharing occurs. The system pre-defines what data can be shared, with what permissions, and under what conditions, thereby preventing privacy violations before they can happen during the data exchange process.
Solution Approach 2:
The privacy layer continuously monitors and validates data sharing operations against the defined privacy policies, providing feedback when potential violations are detected. This feedback mechanism ensures that only compliant data sharing operations are permitted, preventing privacy breaches while maintaining communication functionality.
3Reliability
If encryption is applied to all data, then security is improved, but data transfer efficiency decreases due to unnecessary decryption operations
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly encrypting all data, the system applies encryption selectively based on the specific privacy policy requirements of different data segments. Only the portions of data that require privacy protection are encrypted, while other data can be transferred in plain text, thereby maintaining security where needed without compromising overall transfer efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system encrypts only the necessary portions of data (partial action) rather than all data unnecessarily. This partial encryption approach ensures security for data that requires protection while avoiding the performance penalty of decrypting and re-encrypting data that does not require privacy enforcement.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for privacy policy enforcement to ensure reconciliation between users communicating via an open system interconnection (OSI) communication architecture, with receiving of a privacy policy for at least one user's device and a usage policy for at least one user, receiving encryption codes, receiving private data from a first user to be sent to a second user, encrypting by a first server the received data, receiving a privacy policy enforcement vector, and performing selective decryption, by a second server, for each data segment, wherein data segments that correspond to a match between the privacy policy and usage policy are decrypted, and wherein at least one of the first server and the second server is external to the first user and second user.