Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey

Mostafa, A; Gaber, T; Eltaweel, G; Abraham, A

Abstract

Digital Right Management (DRM) is a technology used to manage the usage of the digital contentsthat distributed through the Internet, and helps the content owners to prevent un-authorized use of theircopyrighted content. However, consumer privacy is a growing problem appeared in DRMenvironment. This problememergedbecause of the consumers can distribute copies of the digital contents without any consideration of the owners’copyright, which lead to moving the content owners to use DRMthatallows the consumers to accessthe content only if they have authenticated by their identity information. Thus, the consumer privacy isviolated in DRMsystem. This paper gives a survey about the current consumer’s privacy preserving solutions. It analyses their advantages and disadvantages and then highlights some open issues to be addressed.

Citation

Mostafa, A., Gaber, T., Eltaweel, G., & Abraham, A. (2017). Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey. International journal of computer information systems and industrial management applications, 9, 218-231

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 19, 2019
• Journal: International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 218-231
• Publisher URL: http://www.mirlabs.org/ijcisim/regular_papers_2017/IJCISIM_56.pdf
• Related Public URLs: http://www.mirlabs.org/ijcisim/