Part II: TSB EnCoRe Project – Ensuring Consent and Revocation

marcocasassamont — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:59:00 GMT

In a previous post of mine, I announced the UK TSB EnCoRe project, focusing on research on Consent and Revocation.

A new version of the EnCoRe web site is now available online.

I would be interested in getting your views and input on two aspects:

Prior art and work in the space of consent and revocation. In a first analysis, very little work is available in terms of automation of revocation of consent, in a wide sense. Any known work/solution in this space?
Your (user) requirements in the space of consent and revocation

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Announcing EnCoRe (Ensuring Consent and Revocation): a new UK IT Collaborative Project

marcocasassamont — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:23:00 GMT

A new UK IT collaborative project has been officially announced: EnCoRe - Ensuring Consent and Revocation (some initial press releases: here and here):

"As more and more personal information flows from individuals to organisations when they interact online, people are becoming more and more concerned that they can not effectively control what this information is used for, with which other organisations it is shared, and where it is stored. They may have given their consent, often in vague terms and implicitly, for its use, sharing and storage, but they have no real control over the specifics of these, nor the ability to revoke their consent and be sure that their wish is respected. In summary, they are not able to control where their personal information flows to, and this makes them uneasy about interacting online.

The overall vision of this project is to make giving consent as reliable and easy as turning on a tap, and revoking that consent as reliable and easy as turning it off again."

This £3.6m project consortium is multi-disciplinary, spanning across a number of IT and social science specialisms. The project partners are Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, HW Communications, QinetiQ, the London School of Economics, the Ethox Centre of the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick.

The EnCoRe project runs from June 2008 to November 2011. It receives funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board, Economic & Social Research Council and Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council.

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Research on Security and Identity Management (by Marco Casassa Mont) : consent

Part II: TSB EnCoRe Project – Ensuring Consent and Revocation

Announcing EnCoRe (Ensuring Consent and Revocation): a new UK IT Collaborative Project