How can DB Systems be ready for privacy regulations

Abstract

Personal data usage and collection are activities that used to growunrestricted. However, several laws in the physical world ensure rights to peo-ple regarding their privacy and information usage. In the last years, legislatorspassed many laws, regulations, and acts to replicate these rights to the digitalworld. By doing so, new constraints, rights, and duties appear on every compo-nent of the data usage and collection workflow. In this paper, we introduce someof these laws, describe some of the rights that highly impact the current designof DBMSs, discuss the challenges raised by these regulations, as well as relatedworks and research opportunities.