Privacy and identity management for everyone

TLDR

The digital shift has lowered the cost of collecting personal data, enabling widespread profiling that can improve services but also lead to opaque decisions about access to credit or employment. prime aims to restore individual sovereignty over personal data, enabling people to control how their information is used. prime provides a technical framework that operationalizes EU privacy laws, allowing individuals to manage and control their personal data.

Abstract

The shift from a paper-based to an electronic-based society has dramatically reduced the cost of collecting, storing and processing individuals' personal information. As a result, it is becoming more common for businesses to "profile" individuals in order to present more personalized offers as part of their business strategy. While such profiles can be helpful and improve efficiency, they can also govern opaque decisions about an individual's access to services such as credit or an employment position. In many cases, profiling of personal data is done without the consent of the target individual.In the past decade, the European Union and its member states have implemented a legal framework to provide guidance on processing of personal data with the specific aim to restore the citizens' control over their data. To complement the legal framework, the prime (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) project [14] has implemented a technical framework for processing personal data. prime's vision is to give individuals sovereignty over their personal data so that: