IC Colloquium : Information Privacy?!
Cancelled
Event details
| Date | 10.12.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:30 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
When using the Internet, we reveal much personal information both willingly and inadvertently.
Companies use this information for targeted advertisement and thereby to finance the services they offer to users. The mechanisms used today to protect users’ personal information are lacking, resulting in far too frequent privacy and security breaches that put the users at risk. In this talk we argue that applications on the Internet should be built with privacy and security as a mandatory requirement, then provide an overview of the state of the art in privacy-enhancing mechanisms, have a brief look at the legal landscape and trends, and then conclude with a roadmap towards a privacy-enhanced digital world and pointing out a number of challenges that need to be solved.
Biography
Jan Camenisch received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998 both from ETH Zurich. From 1998 until 1999 he has been Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 1999 he is Research Staff Member and project leader at IBM Research -- Zurich. He was also the technical leader of the EU-funded projects PRIME (prime-project.eu) and PrimeLife (primelife.eu) which both contributed towards making on-line privacy a reality and is currently involved with ABC4Trust (abc4trust.eu) and FutureID (futureID.eu).
His research interests include public key cryptography; cryptographic protocols, in particular those supporting privacy and anonymity; practical secure distributed computation; and privacy-enhancing technologies.
When using the Internet, we reveal much personal information both willingly and inadvertently.
Companies use this information for targeted advertisement and thereby to finance the services they offer to users. The mechanisms used today to protect users’ personal information are lacking, resulting in far too frequent privacy and security breaches that put the users at risk. In this talk we argue that applications on the Internet should be built with privacy and security as a mandatory requirement, then provide an overview of the state of the art in privacy-enhancing mechanisms, have a brief look at the legal landscape and trends, and then conclude with a roadmap towards a privacy-enhanced digital world and pointing out a number of challenges that need to be solved.
Biography
Jan Camenisch received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998 both from ETH Zurich. From 1998 until 1999 he has been Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 1999 he is Research Staff Member and project leader at IBM Research -- Zurich. He was also the technical leader of the EU-funded projects PRIME (prime-project.eu) and PrimeLife (primelife.eu) which both contributed towards making on-line privacy a reality and is currently involved with ABC4Trust (abc4trust.eu) and FutureID (futureID.eu).
His research interests include public key cryptography; cryptographic protocols, in particular those supporting privacy and anonymity; practical secure distributed computation; and privacy-enhancing technologies.
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