Truthfully Negotiating Usage Policy for Data Sovereignty

Chunlei Yang, Yunchuan Guo, Mingjie Yu, Lingcui Zhang

Abstract: To realize data sovereignty, the International Data Space (IDS), adopting usage policies to determine how, when and where other enterprises or individuals may use data, has been proposed by the IDS association and widely received attention from academia and industry. However, because data in the IDS are transferred across domains, existing policy creation approaches for a single domain cannot be applied in the IDS. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a negotiation scheme to create usage policies in the IDS. In detail, we formulate usage policy negotiation as a combinatorial auction problem and adopt the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to incentivize potential data providers to truthfully negotiate usage policies. Both theoretical and simulation results show that our scheme maintains truthfulness on data providers and is cost-efficient.