A Framework for Building Privacy-Conscious Composite Web Services

The rapid growth of web applications has prompted increasing interest in the area of composite web services that involve several service providers. The potential for such composite web services can be realized only if consumer privacy concerns are satisfactorily addressed. This paper proposes a framework that addresses consumer privacy concerns in the context of highly customizable composite web services. The approach involves service producers exchanging their terms-of-use with consumers in the form of "Models".