PRIME

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PRIME (Privacy and Identity management for Europe/ Data security and identity management for Europe) is the name of a project within 6. Your program. The Kick off meeting of the projectproject project found in wells, Switzerland, of 8. to 12. March 2004 instead of.

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Goals

PRIME became at the 1. March 2004 started and pursues the goal for the next four years, To investigate and develop solutions, it make possible for humans, even control of their Privatsphaere in Cyberspace to take over.

Financing, Course of the project

The European union promotes PRIME in the context of the sixth European research program "technologies for the information society" (IS). The project runs since March 2004 for one duration from four years and has a total promotion of 16 millions. Euro.

Description

In the on-line world everyone must administer a multiplicity of user accounts and data records. These "digital identities in such a way specified" become both in future electronic services and within the range of public security (z.B. play a key role with border controls) increasingly. They can contain sensitive personal data like patient data, Employee data, Credit card data etc.. Inquiries showed, that humans today by identity theft and softening of their personality rights in their privatsphaere feel threatened. In the information society humans would like to exchange themselves surely with one another and at the same time to keep control of their personal data. PRIME concentrates on solutions for a data security-promoting identity management, to the sovereignty of the users over its privatsphaere and to the data security-fair data processing of enterprises contributes.

The European commission supports data security-promoting technology (English: PET - Privacy Enhancing Technologies) already for several years. Expert from economics, Administration and science as well as of data security authorities determined, that data thriftiness is an outstanding feature of data security-promoting technology, D.h. the delimitation of collecting personal data on that absolutely forces. The experts agree therein, that data security-promoting technology with the development by information systems to be already inserted should - in place of later rework. PRIME supplies a comprehensive answer to the needs of the users, to give change as little as possible personal data with the access to services and implement own data security preferences.

PRIME becomes on technical, legal, social, economic as well as ergonomic requirements are received. Is of special importance the development of models, it will make easy for the users and service tenderers, To understand identity management. In order to reach market acceptance for this technology, new solutions for the administration of own identities in ambitionierten material World scenarios are demonstrated, z.B. within the ranges journeys, Location Based services, E-Learning and e-Health. The results of PRIME are accompanied by a group of references, the experts from economics, public administration, Consumer protection and citizen right organizations, Research & development, Standardisation committees, Data security authorities and punishing pursuers covers.

Partner

Several project partnerpartner project partners work also in industrie and groups of standardisations like that World Wide Web Consortium, OASIS, Liberty Alliance Project, ISOINTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICAL COMMISSION JTC 1 and that IETF.

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