An overview presentation of the European Privacy Open Space Project. see also:www.privacyos.eu

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
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)

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
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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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