PROJECT FINAL REPORT Grant Agreement number: 216483 Project acronym: PrimeLife Project title: Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life Funding Scheme: IP Period covered: from March 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011 Name of the scientific representative of the project's co-ordinator 1, Title and Organisation: Dr. Jan Camenisch, IBM Research GmbH Tel: +41 44 724 8279 Fax: +41 44 724 8953 E-mail:
[email protected] Project website address: http://www.primelife.eu 1 Usually the contact person of the coordinator as specified in Art. 8.1. of the Grant Agreement. 4.1 Final publishable summary report Executive Summary The vision of the PrimeLife project is to enable individuals in the information society to protect their privacy and retain control over their personal information, irrespective of the activities they are performing. Indeed, individuals and businesses are increasingly using social networking, online collaboration applications, mesh-ups of different services, and the Internet in general, for both private and business purposes. Unfortunately, the new information technologies hardly consider the privacy requirements of the individuals. PrimeLife’s Approach PrimeLife’s approach was threefold. First, PrimeLife picked up the results and technologies from the PRIME project and helped with their adoption in the real world by providing materials for standardization and education. Second, PrimeLife eliminated many of the remaining hurdles for large-scale adoption of these results by addressing user interfaces, policy languages, and infrastructural components. Third, PrimeLife provides a number of solutions for privacy, identity, and trust management in cases where protecting privacy by data minimization fails. Privacy for Life – Beyond Data Minimization PrimeLife provides privacy-enhancing solutions for Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs, and social software that allow the users to assess the trustworthiness and privacy setting of information provider and to protect their own privacy when interacting with Internet sites such as social networks or blogs.