Question
How to ensure data is used or processed in accordance with its originally intended purpose?
Context
There are many challenges when building a cloud-based application for storing and processing personal and private sensitive information (e.g. healthcare system). The challenges range from security to legal aspects; one of the challenging issue to address is to ensure that data shared between different concern parties in the network is used in accordance with its defined purpose. By law (e.g. GDPR), data processor is liable to the misuse of personal information and it has legal responsibilities to ensure that data processed in their system or in other system they share with is used in accordance with law, declared purpose and user consent.
Solution
A reliable data usage control tools is required to control the usage of data. Usage control tool allows user to not only control and enforce the usage of data, but also trace and audit the usage of it.
References
Data Usage Control for the Cloud - www.doc.ic.ac.uk
