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PrivacyOS
1. European
Privacy Open Space
A Thematic Network on Privacy Protection
Infrastructures
Contact:
privacyos@datenschutzzentrum.de
www.privacyos.eu
2. The Project
PrivacyOS is a thematic network for privacy protection
infrastructur within the current European Commission´s
ICT Policy Support Programme
• Start date: June 1st, 2008
• Duration: 24 Months
• 16 partners from Government, Academia, Enterprise and
SMEs are participating
• 4 conferences over 2 years, co-located with relevant
other events
3. The Consortium
Enterprise
• Friendly Technologies Ltd, UK
• GEIE ERCIM W3C, FR
• Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK
• NEC Europe Ltd. NEC, UK
Government
• Agencia de Protección de Datos de la Civil Society and Academia
Comunidad de Madrid, ES • Bureau Européen des Unions de
• Republika Slovenija, Informacijski Consommateurs (BEUC)
Pooblaščenec • European Digital Rights (EDRI)
• State Data Protection Inspectorate of • Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
the Republic of Lithuania Frankfurt am Main, DE
• The association of Local Authorities of • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
Kavala, GR • Metamorphosis Foundation, MK
• Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für • Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Datenschutz, DE (Coordinator) • Quintessenz e.V., AT
4. The Project
• aims at bringing together Industry,
SMEs, Government, Academia and
Civil Society
• wants to foster development and
deployment of privacy
infrastructures in Europe
• serves as a marketplace for those
offering solutions to those facing new
challenges
• allows users to define privacy
profiles, and to monitor and control
their enforcement and propagation
• facilitates the emergence of an open
• Gives the opportunity to exchange Europe-wide eServices market with
research and best practises, as dynamic service composition across
well as develop strategies and different privacy policy regimes
joint projects
6. The core issues
• Fostering privacy-friendly identity management
• Awarenessraising – functions and impact of data
protection
• Enabling privacy on the web
• Understanding virtualisation, categorisation and social
sorting
7. Objectives of
PrivacyOS
• PrivacyOS brings together industry, SMEs, Government, Academia and Civil
Society to foster development and deployment of privacy infrastructures for
Europe
• Facilitate the emergence of an open Europe-wide eServices market with
dynamic service composition across different privacy policy regimes
• allow users to define privacy profiles, and to monitor and control their
enforcement and propagation
• Exchange research and best practises, as well as develop strategies and joint
projects following four core policy goals: Awareness-rising, enabling privacy on
the web, fostering privacy-friendly Identity Management and stipulating
research.
8. Related Projects
and Initiatives
• PrimeLife
• EuroPriSe – European Privacy Seal
• FIDIS – Future of Identity in the Information Society
• Swift – Identity Management across silos
• TAS3 – Generic Architecture for Securely Managing Employability and
Helthcare, Personal Information Services
9. Open Space?
• Open Agenda,
established on the fly,
only the guiding subject is
provided
• Participants themselves
are in charge of
organising the event
• Similar to BarCamps, in
use by many, eg. ITU-T
10. Contact
Dr. Katalin Storf
(Project Coordinator)
Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz
Holstenstrasse 98,
24103 Kiel/Germany
privacyos@datenschutzzentrum.de
phone: +49 431 988 1283
fax: +49 431 988 1223