European Privacy Open Space

A Thematic Network on Privacy Protection Infrastructures

Contact:

privacyos@datenschutzzentrum.de

www.privacyos.eu

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

The Consortium

Civil Society and Academia• Bureau Européen des Unions de

Consommateurs (BEUC)• European Digital Rights (EDRI)• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität

Frankfurt am Main, DE• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE • Metamorphosis Foundation, MK• Oxford Internet Institute, UK• Quintessenz e.V., AT

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

Comunidad de Madrid, ES• Republika Slovenija, Informacijski

Pooblaščenec• State Data Protection Inspectorate of

the Republic of Lithuania• The association of Local Authorities of

Kavala, GR• Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für

Datenschutz, DE (Coordinator)

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 Europe-wide eServices market with dynamic service composition across different privacy policy regimes

• Gives the opportunity to exchange research and best practises, as well as develop strategies and joint projects

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

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.

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

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

Contact

Dr. Katalin Storf(Project Coordinator)

Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für DatenschutzHolstenstrasse 98,24103 Kiel/Germany

privacyos@datenschutzzentrum.de

phone: +49 431 988 1283fax: +49 431 988 1223