PrimeLife, a three-year project coordinated by IBM’s Zurich Research Lab, plans to develop an open source privacy toolbox.
For three years, IBM with 14 other partners will work on Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life, PrimeLife, a project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Research Framework Program. The first goal of the project is to provide scalable and configurable privacy and identity management that integrates with emerging Internet services and applications, most notably social networking. The long-term goal is to provide users the means to protect their privacy indefinitely. The project will strive to advance many technologies, including human-computer interfaces, configurable policy languages, Web service federations, infrastructures, and privacy-enhancing cryptography.
PrimeLife builds on another EU project called Prime (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe), an effort to develop a working prototype of a privacy-enhancing identity management system.
