Privacy and Identity Research at European Commision

Established in Seville (Spain), in 1994, the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (ipts)is one of the seven institutes making up the joint research centre (jrc)of the European Commission.

One of IPTS' research areas is Privacy and Identity in the Information Society (PRIDIS),

The Lisbon strategy aims to create an inclusive, dynamic, competitive and secure knowledge-based society in Europe. To achieve this, the European Union needs to provide to citizens and consumers with a ‘trusted’ online environment. Such an environment needs to guarantee not only that citizens’ rights are well protected, but that citizens perceive this to be the case. Both security and privacy are necessary to establish and maintain citizen and consumer confidence in electronic communications, services and interactions, and thus in the information society in general.

The last publication at IPTS is about Biometrics " Biometrics at the Frontiers: Assessing the Impact on Society. Study for the European Parliament Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), February 2005."

With reports about biometrics and legal issues, economics aspects and social.

Another fantastic paper is this about Draft article on "Digital Territory: Bubbles", forthcoming in The Vision Book (2005) by Laurent Beslay and Hannu Hakala.

This paper about privacy like as bubbles remind me this presentation I've found at Open Course Ware at MIT. "11.947 New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design, Fall 2004" Session 2New Century Cities