PAW : PAW: Privacy in an Ambient World

<BODY> <H1>PAW: Privacy in an Ambient World</H1> <p class="toc"> <a class="toc" href="#intro">Introduction</a> | <a class="toc" href="#news">News</a> | <a class="toc" href="#funding">Funding</a> | <a class="toc" href="#vacancies">Vacancies</a> </p> <a name="intro"> <h2>Introduction</h2> </a> The objective of the PAW (Privacy in an Ambient World) project is to develop a privacy protecting architecture that can provide full privacy of the user in an ambient world. <p> We take a two-tier approach. To prevent unwanted collection of data about a user and his actions, techniques from secure computing are extended to provide private computing. To control the authorised dissemination of data about a user, licensing techniques similar to those used in digital rights management are studied. In particular, a private licensing language and protocols to handle and enforce such licenses will be developed. <p> Ambient systems are characterised by their low resources and capabilities. PAW's key challenge is to develop an efficient architecture to implement our ideas. PAW builds on the results obtained during the <A HREF="http://www.pet-pisa.nl" target="_top">PISA</a> project. <a name="news"> <h2>News</h2> </a> <p class="news"> PAW will feature in a joint EU/Senter workshop on privacy to be held on April 21, 2004 in the Aula of the Delft University. More information will follow shortly. </p> <a name="funding"> <h2>Funding</h2> </a> The PAW project is funded by the <A HREF="http://www.minez.nl/" target="_top">Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs </a> through the <A HREF="http://www.senter.nl/iopgencom" target="_top">IOP GenCom</a> programme managed by <A HREF="http://www.senter.nl" target="_top">Senter</a>, for a period of four years. It officially started October 15, 2003. <p> PAW is additionally supported by funds from <A HREF="http://www.telecom.tno.nl/" target="_top">TNO Telecom</a>. <p> Other businesses that are interested in our work can <A HREF="./contact.html" target="_top">contact us</a> as well. <a name="vacancies"> <h2>Vacancies</h2> </a> No vacancies.  <P> <HR> <P class="extro"> Last Version - $Revision: 1.11 $ / $Date: 2004/11/23 12:14:38 $ <BR> Maintained by <A HREF="http://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/card.html">Jaap-Henk Hoepman</A><BR> Email: <IMG SRC="./images/email.gif" BORDER="0" ALT="Email address">