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

5. The core issues

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