An Overview of Privacy Issues in Web Services Architecture (WSA)

Speaker:          Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung 
                  Commonwealth Scientific and 
                  Industrial Research Organization 
                  Australia 
  
Title:            An Overview of Privacy Issues in Web Services Architecture (WSA) 

Date:             Monday, 03 November 2003 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Seng Lecture Theatre) 
                  (near lift nos. 25/26)   


ABSTRACT: 

As Web services are becoming more and more popular for supporting different 
applications, there are also increasing demands and discussions about Web 
services privacy protection in the industry and research community. In general, 
privacy policies describe an organization's data practices - what information 
they collect from individuals (e.g., consumers) and what (e.g., purposes) they 
do with it. To enable privacy protection for Web service consumers across 
multiple domains and services, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published 
a document called Web Services Architecture (WSA) Requirements that defines 
some specific privacy requirements for Web services as a future research topic. 
Along with other relevant XML standards such as the W3C, Platform for Privacy 
Preferences Project (P3P), this seminar discusses privacy issues in Web Services 
Architecture (WSA) for supporting Web services-based applications in the future.



BIOGRAPHY: 

Patrick Hung is a Research Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 
Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia. He has industrial experience 
in e-business projects in North America and Hong Kong. From 2000 to present, he 
has been serving as a panellist of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 
and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs of the National Science 
Foundation (NSF) in the USA. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE 
International Conference on Web Services (ICWS). Currently, he is an editor of 
the W3C P3P Beyond HTTP Task Force Working Draft and also an associate editor of 
a new International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR).