In this paper, we discussed privacy issues in an M&A transaction, and extracted problems.
To address the privacy problems of an M&A process, we have proposed the SIMS for
securely accessing and disclosing the sensitive personal information. Our system manages the
private HR data based on privacy policies using XACML, and it supports evidence or a legal
proof comply with the security laws. Our proposed system will play an adequate role of
facilitating the protection of personal information in an M&A transaction.
In the future, we will focus our research on compliance issues in M&A activity, and
continue to study the automated policy management for private data.