Usage Control Enforcement: Present and Future

Both personal data and intellectual property must be protected for various reasons. The authors explore the state of the art in usage control, which is about controlling the use of such data after it has been given away, and identify room for improvement.

Background

We call data that's subject to usage control ucdata. The fundamental problem of distributed usage control is that data providers want to impose control on how data consumers’ processing devices or information systems handle data. Unfortunately for the data providers, however, these machines are usually outside their scope of control or even visibility.