Integrating Data Privacy Compliance in Active Object Languages

As users of digitalized services are more and more required to share their personal data, it becomes increasingly important for applications to comply with users’ consent for the handling of their personal data. Ensuring compliance with such consent requires reasoning globally about both the flow of information and the interaction of different parties handling personal data. In this direction, privacy by design principles cultivate a philosophy that endorses the development of systems with built-in abilities to demonstrate compliance with data privacy to guarantee the protection of personal data. However, there is an apparent mismatch in adopting such imprecise principles into explicit design methods that support systematic solutions that integrates data privacy in system design. In this paper, we propose an integration of privacy concepts into a core active object language, to explore how the chosen privacy-aware language semantics can ensure handling of personal data according to users’ privacy consent.