Projects

The goal of ABC4Trust is to address the federation and interchangeability of technologies that support trustworthy yet privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (ABC). So far credentials such as digitally signed pieces of personal information or other information used to authenticate or identify a user where not designed to respect the users privacy. They invariably reveal the identity of the holder even though the application at hand often needs much less information, for instance only confirmation that the holder is a teenager or is eligible for social benefits. In contrast to that, Attribute-based Credentials allow a holder to reveal just the minimal information required by the application, without giving away full identity information. These credentials thus facilitate the implementation of a trustworthy and at the same time privacy-protecting digital society.

"Global Identity Networking of Individuals - Support Action” aims to investigate and establish the foundations for the architectural, legal, regulatory requirements, as well as the provisioning and privacy enhancing aspects, of a framework of user-centric identity management services. GINI-SA is based on the assumption that individuals, i.e. citizens, consumers, users of any related services, should be able to manage their own identity data and provide it in an open and flexible manner. As a Support Action, the main objective of the project is to form the basis whereupon the research community, the European Commission, various policymakers and other institutional, industrial or social stakeholders in the field of identity management, will be able to consult among each other and join forces in advancing the research agenda, which will lead to the implementation of new, user-centric services.

By integrating European expertise on socio-technical security into a widely applicable and standardised framework, TREsPASS will reduce security incidents in Europe, and allow organisations and their customers to make informed decisions about security investments.

PREMIUM-Services beschäftigt sich mit der zielgerichteten Bepreisung von Diensten und Gütern im Kontext des Internet. Ziel des Projekts ist es, sowohl bewährte als auch neu zu entwickelnde innovative Preismechanismen Anbietern kommerzieller Internetanwendungen als vorgefertigte, flexible und als "out-of-the-box" nutzbare Dienste zur Verfügung zu stellen.

The objective of the project is to advance the state of the art in technologies that provide privacy-enhanced identity and trust management features within complex community-supporting services that are built on Next Generation Networks and delivered by multiple communication service providers. The approach taken by the project is to research, develop, build trial and evaluate an open, privacy-respecting, trust-enabling identity management platform that supports the provision of community services by mobile communication service providers.

Individuals in the Information Society want to protect their autonomy and retain control over personal information, irrespective of their activities. Information technologies hardly consider those requirements, thereby putting the privacy of the citizen at risk. Today, the increasingly collaborative character of the Internet enables anyone to compose services and to contribute and distribute information. Individuals will contribute throughout their life leaving a life-long trail of personal data. 

This raises substantial new privacy challenges: A first technical challenge is how to protect privacy in emerging Internet applications such as collaborative scenarios and virtual communities. A second challenge is how to maintain life-long privacy. PrimeLife will ensure that the community at large adopts privacy technologies.

The European Privacy Open Space (PrivacyOS) is a thematic network for privacy protection infrastructure within the current European Commission’s ICT Policy Support Programme. It aims at bringing together industry, SMEs, Government, Academia and Civil Society to foster development and deployment of privacy infrastructures for Europe, serving as a marketplace for those offering solutions to those facing new challenges. The general objectives of PrivacyOS are to create a long-term collaboration in the thematic network and establish collective interfaces with other EU projects.

Europe will develop a deeper understanding of how appropriate identities and identity management can progress the way to a fair(er) European information society.

PRIME is a new European RTD Integrated Project under the FP6/IST Programme. It is concerned with the issues of privacy and identity management in the information society.

Das Projekt entwickelt einen semantischen Beschreibungsansatz für mobile Nutzungssituationen im M-Commerce, auf dessen Basis sich neue Erlös- und Nutzungsformen für das mobile Internet realisieren lassen.

The aim of the SIDATE project is to support small and medium-sizes energy providers in assessing and improving their information security level. This involves developing an inter-organisational collaboration platform for energy providers which provides for example a security self-assessment module.

The AN.ON-Next project aims at integrating privacy-enhancing technologies into the internet infrastructure. The technologies in focus include a basic protection at the ISP, an improved overlay network-based protection and a concept for privacy protection in the emerging 5G mobile network. Crucial success factors are the adjustment and development of standards, business models and pricing strategies for those new technologies. 

CREDENTIAL is a EU funded research project developing, testing and showcasing innovative cloud-based services for storing, managing, and sharing digital identity information and other highly critical personal data with a demonstrably higher level of security  than other current solutions.The main idea and ambition of CREDENTIAL is to enable end-to-end security and improved privacy in cloud identity management services for managing secure access control. This is achieved by advancing novel cryptographic technologies and improving strong authentication mechanisms.

The aim of the project Self Privacy in Online Commerce (SIOC) is the design of an anonymous approach to online shopping in accordance to stakeholders’ requirements and business models while implementing data protection by design and data protection by default as essential principles of EU data protection rules. For this purpose, a vendor-independent architecture for anonymous shopping will be developed, allowing the buyers to manage and understand autonomously their user profiles by the means of virtual identities. To achieve a broad distribution, not only acceptance by the users is needed, but also by the other involved stakeholders, e.g. online-shop providers. Therefore, care will be taken to preserve existing business models (e.g. direct marketing) as far as possible.