Temporal Containers for Geolocation-Based Meeting Data Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing web conferencing technologies fail to adequately protect sensitive data during transmission by adhering to country-specific data privacy laws, potentially leading to data breaches across borders.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of temporal containers that segregate data sharing based on participant location and access levels, ensuring data remains within the user's or entity's control and is automatically deleted after the meeting, using cloud storage platforms and secure deletion algorithms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If data is transmitted freely across borders during web conferencing, then ease of operation and collaboration is improved, but compliance with data privacy laws deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the web conferencing environment into multiple isolated containers, each associated with a specific geographic location. Data is stored and transmitted within these segmented containers rather than freely across the entire network, ensuring that data remains within its originating jurisdiction while still enabling collaboration within each segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements location-specific data storage where each container is bound to a particular geographic location. Data quality and access permissions vary locally based on the container's location, ensuring that each region's data privacy requirements are met while maintaining overall system functionality.
2Reliability
If temporal containers are implemented to enforce data privacy, then data privacy compliance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The temporal container mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it enforces data privacy compliance, manages data lifecycle automatically, handles geolocation-based access control, and provides secure deletion capabilities. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The temporal containers are designed to automatically perform data privacy compliance functions without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages data storage, access control, and deletion based on temporal and location-based rules, reducing the operational complexity burden on users.
3Reliability
If data is stored in location-specific containers, then data security is improved, but data accessibility across locations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The temporal container acts as an intermediary layer between data and users from different locations. It mediates access requests by enforcing location-based permissions while still allowing authorized cross-location access, thus maintaining security while enabling necessary data sharing.
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AI summary
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for temporal container generation is provided. The embodiment may include identifying a geolocation associated with a user device for each user within a web conference. The embodiment may also include generating a temporal container for each identified geolocation on one or more commonly controlled servers. The embodiment may further include assigning a temporal container corresponding to the geolocation associated with the user device to each user. The embodiment may also include, in response to a user within the web conference sharing a document, storing the document to each temporal container. The embodiment may further include granting each user permission to access the shared document in the temporal container to which each user is assigned.