In this paper, we summarize work-in-progress on expert system support to automate some data deposit and release decisions within a data repository, and to generate custom license agreements for those data transfers. Our approach formalizes via a logic programming language the privacy-relevant aspects of laws, regulations, and best practices, supported by legal analysis documented in legal memoranda. This formalization enables automated reasoning about the conditions under which a repository can transfer data, through interrogation of users, and the application of formal rules to the facts obtained from users. The proposed system takes the specific conditions for a given data release and produces a custom data use agreement that accurately captures the relevant restrictions on data use. This enables appropriate decisions and accurate licenses, while removing the bottleneck of lawyer effort per data transfer. The operation of the system aims to be transparent, in the sense that administrators, lawyers, institutional review boards, and other interested parties can evaluate the legal reasoning and interpretation embodied in the formalization, and the specific rationale for a decision to accept or release a particular dataset.
翻译:在本文件中,我们总结了在专家系统支助方面正在进行的工作,以在数据储存库内实现某些数据存储和发布决定自动化,并为数据传输订立海关许可协议。我们的方法通过逻辑编程语言正式确定法律、法规和最佳做法的隐私方面,并辅以法律备忘录中的法律分析。这种正规化有助于自动推理存储库能够通过询问用户和对用户获取的事实适用正式规则来传输数据的条件。拟议的系统采用特定数据发布的具体条件,并产生用户数据使用协议,准确记录对数据使用的相关限制。这使得能够作出适当的决定和准确的许可,同时消除每次数据传输时律师努力的瓶颈。该系统的运作旨在做到透明,即管理员、律师、机构审查委员会和其他有关方面可以评价正式化所体现的法律推理和解释,以及作出接受或发布特定数据集决定的具体理由。