Principles of Information Accountability: An eHealth Perspective

摘要

Information accountability (IA) is a solution for usage control on the decentralised Web (Feigenbaum, Hendler, Jaggard, Weitzner, & Wright, 2011; Weitzner et al., 2008). IA is about holding the information users answerable for their actions and the ramifications of those actions. Weitzner et al. (2008) propose a transparent and accountable audit process that gives the users incentives to abide by the policies put in place and the ability to determine whether a particular use of information is policy compliant. Though the concept is not new, IA is comparatively new to computer science and information and communication technology (ICT) and has been interpreted in various dimensions by computer scientists. These approaches have been carefully systematised by Feigenbaum et al.