Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language

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Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) is a formal language for writing enterprise privacy policies to govern data handling practices in IT systems according to fine-grained positive and negative authorization rights. It was submitted by IBM to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2003 to be considered for recommendation. In 2004, a lawsuit was filed by Zero-Knowledge Systems claiming that IBM breached a copyright agreement from when they worked together in 2001 - 2002 to create Privacy Rights Markup Language (PRML). EPAL is based on PRML, which means Zero-Knowledge argued they should be a co-owner of the standard.{{cite web | url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2323180/infrastructure-management/lawsuit-questions-ibm-s-ownership-of-epal-standard.html | title=Lawsuit questions IBM's ownership of EPAL standard | publisher=networkworld.com | date=June 10, 2004 | accessdate=February 12, 2018 | author=Paul F. Roberts}}