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SUMMARY
The proliferation of social networking has thrown up challenges for the internet community in terms of guaranteeing end user’s safety and privacy on the web.
The User-Managed Access (UMA) project seeks to develop a protocol that enable will individuals to authorise who and what can get access to their online personal data, content , and services through a unified control point. At this control point, a user can set policy that ensures that only requesters meeting a given set of criteria can succeed in gaining access to their personal data.
UMA can apply to a wide variety of sharing scenarios, such as sharing social data and calendars with friends, sharing health data securely with medical professionals, giving contract bookkeepers access to small-business financial data, and offering photos for sale. An international team of computer industry professionals, web service providers, and researchers has been involved in designing and implementing the draft UMA specifications.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing a web protocol specification with initial version and updates submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for consideration
- Conducting interoperability testing on four specific implementations, including Java and Python implementations
- Engaging stakeholders to implement the UMA outputs to solve a variety of selective-sharing scenarios
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LINK: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Home
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