Coordination of EnCoRe Project: Ensuring Consent and Revocation

I recently become the coordinator of the UK collaborative (TSB co-funded) EnCoRe project. This project focuses on ensuring consent & revocation to users, along with privacy management capabilities integrated with state-of-the-art IT frameworks.

This is a great opportunity. The project is now in its exploitation phase. We are setting up a strategic collaboration with the UK Cabinet Office/Identity Assurance programme, to leverage EnCoRe technical capabilities in their framework.

Further progress has been made to further develop the EnCoRe compliance checking and risk assessment capabilities, as well as in finalising the second case study in a Biobanking context.

In addition to various demonstrators built by EnCoRe partners, HP Labs are also developing a R&D EnCoRe Service Framework to provide a reference implementation, exploitable by third parties as well as a R&D platform for advanced research. This framework will be compliant with current EnCoRe Architecture and the coming third release.

Other exploitation opportunities are emerging with business groups and other UK agencies. More information to be provided soon on the EnCoRe web site ...

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EnCoRe Project: Architecture Version 2 released

The second EnCoRe Architecture, D2.2, has been officially released and it is available online.

This architectural document updates and refines the first Architecture about the explicit management of Privacy, Consent and Revocation by introducing – among many things - refined internal and external workflow management capabilities, the explicit management of obligation policies and the support for sticky policies.


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Making good progress in the UK EnCoRe Project

The UK collaborative EnCoRe project is making good progress towards achieving a key set of objectives.

I have been deeply involved in finalising the new version of the EnCoRe Architecture that will support the coming case studies and (hopefully) a pilot with a major UK company. It will be soon publicly released.

We are currently working on an “EnCoRe System Framework” that will enable grounding this architecture at the system, compliance and regulatory levels – to enable the above mentioned case studies and pilot.




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EnCoRe Project – 9th Quarter Summary

The EnCoRe Q9 Summary is available here.


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EnCoRe General meeting

I am just back from the EnCoRe General meeting. It has been a very good meeting with interesting discussions and plans to move forward.

In particular HP Labs gave an update of the EnCoRe Architecture V2, and extension of the first version, aiming at providing new capabilities to improve the management of consent and revocation, in dynamic multi-party domains (e.g. in the Cloud). Extensions include:
- Negotiation capabilities
- Internal and external workflows to deal with data disclosure and privacy management, driven by policies
- Obligation Management
- Sticky policies

More to come …

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EnCoRe Presentation at W3C PLING Phone Conference

Pete Bramhall, Senior Research Manager at HP Labs and coordinator of the collaborative UK EnCoRe Project (Ensuring Consent and Revocation), has given an invited talk at the last W3C PLING (Policy Language Interest Group) phone conference.

His presentation his available online, here: it provides a good overview of the objectives, works and current status of the EnCoRe project, as well as a list of needs and requirements to be addressed in the space of privacy management.

This was the first of a series of invited talks we are planning to host in the context of the monthly W3C PLING phone meetings. More to come.

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Next W3C PLING Phone Conference – 13 July 2010 – Invited Talk by Pete Bramhall, EnCoRe Director

The next W3XPLING Teleconference is July, 13th: http://www.w3.org/Policy/pling/wiki/2010-07-13

Exciting news. This time we have an Invited Talk.

Pete Bramhall (Senior Project Manager at HP Labs and EnCoRe Director) will present: "On the UK Collaborative EnCoRe Project: Ensuring Consent and Revocation".

Here is an abstract of the talk:
“EnCoRe – Ensuring Consent and Revocation – is a research project, being undertaken by UK industry and academia, to give individuals more control over their personal information. This Invited Talk provides an overview of the project, its goals and requirements and its current achievements in the space of privacy management, policies and privacy-aware access control. Additional information: http://www.encore-project.info/”

I encourage this audience to attend and interact with Pete in a Q&A session after the presentation.

Here are some articles related to a recent press and media event about the EnCoRe project:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/06/personal_data
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2265665/hp-working-privacy-tool
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/66174_LSE%3A_Turning_off_the_tap_for_online_personal_data_-_prototype_system_unveiled_by_EnCoRe_/

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EnCoRe Project: Press Event and Follow-up Panel of Expert

Yesterday (29 June 2010) there has been a Press Event at London School of Economics related to the collaborative EnCoRe project (Ensuring Consent and Revocation): our approach, current results (technology and prototype) and philosophy have been illustrated and debated.

This event has then been followed by a panel of experts whom provided their view on privacy and the management of consent and revocation.

I must say that the news coverage is very good! Some news highlights are already available here, here and here.


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