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Report of the W3C Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios published

W3C has published a report and full minutes of the Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios, held in Luxembourg on 17th and 18th of November 2009.

Participants from 17 organizations examined the current limitations of access control, privacy enhancement, distributed handling of access control, and other challenging use cases. eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) was a focus of the Workshop, though not the exclusive topic of conversation. The report summarizes the major "takeaways" from the Workshop, related to XACML semantics, sticky policies, and credentials-based access control. The OASIS XACML Technical Committee is expected to take up these topics. W3C's Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING) is expected to discuss data handling policies and the matching and triggering of events in the privacy context were also discussed.

Further discussion about this subject and complex matching using semantic web technologies will be directed to the Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING).

PrimeLife / IFIP Summer School 2010 - Call for contributions published

The sixth International Summer School organised jointly by the EU FP7 project PrimeLife and the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6 will be held in
Helsingborg, Sweden, 2^nd - 6^th August 2010
in cooperation with the EU FP7 project ETICA

More information is available on the summer school website.

The call for contributions can be found here.

Students are especially invited to submit contributions on the theme privacy   and identity management for emerging internet applications throughout a person's life.

Both IFIP and PrimeLife take a holistic approach to technology and support interdisciplinary exchange. Participants' contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, ethical, philosophical, or psychological perspectives are especially welcome.

Extended abstracts (2-4 pages in length) will soon be submittable via the summer school's website.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 2nd, 2010
Short paper (up to 8 pages) for the Pre-Proceedings: July 2nd, 2010

Heartbeat on Identity Management throughout Life published

Heartbeat on Identity Management throughout Life published

This report "H1.3.5: Requirements and concepts for identity management throughout life" derives requirements and concepts for identity management throughout life, taking into account lifelong aspects of privacy and identity management which demand for a new consideration of legal and technical protection. The Heartbeat is a draft document presenting the current state of discussion in Work Package 1.3. Basing on H1.3.2 (the draft version of H1.3.5), this Heartbeat  presents a multitude of requirements which have been refined by taking into account all other reports  that have been elaborated in this Work Package, yet. These requirements form a basis for the further work, in particular on prototype development in Work Package 1.3. In addition it addresses  stakeholders such as system developers, application providers, and policy makers by pointing out important issues to consider when setting long-term conditions of societal living and technological  support. The Heartbeat is made public to enable public review and to foster input from other actors.

First PrimeLife / IFIP Summer School successfully finished

First PrimeLife / IFIP Summer School successfully finished

During September 7th to 11th, the fifth IFIP TC9/TC11 Summer School has been successfully held in Nice with 60 participants from Europe, South America and Asia. The Summer School participants consisted of PrimeLife project members as well as researchers and practitioners from other Universities or commercial organisations, which were partly representing related privacy research projects (such as the EU FP7 projects TURBINE, TAS3, PICOS and the national projects PETweb II and Encore).

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