This section contains materials from the previous two A Fine Balance events held in 2006 and 2007. They include press materials, presentations and reports from the events as resources to be used by those involved with or interested in the development and application of PETs.

2007 event materials

Event report from A Fine Balance 2007

This is a review of the need for Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) from a variety of experts who spoke at last year's event. It includes the outputs of the five specialist sessions on transport, health, web 2.0, surveillance and biometrics.
Fine Balance London Final Report FINAL VERSION

Report from the Cyber Security KTN Special Interest Group

This white paper offers guidance on the issues around privacy engineering that must be addressed before the threat of breaches can be reduced. It specifically offers advice on what organisations need to do at each stage of the product lifecycle to embed privacy into products and services from day one.
Privacy engineering whitepaper

Presentations for 2007 event speakers

Jonathan Bamford, Office of the Information Commissioner
Keynote: UK Perspective on Privacy

Stephan Engberg, Founder and CEO of Priway
A World without PETs

Caspar Bowden, Microsoft EMEA
Towards a Privacy-Compliant Identity 'Metasystem'

Prof Kai Rannenberg, University of Goethe
Technology Developers Perspective

Peter Schaar, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party
Consumer Requirements

A World Without PETs

This article, written by speakers Stephan Engberg, founder and CEO of Priway following the 2007 Fine Balance event.
A World Without PETs

2006 event materials

Delegate Submissions

Delegates at the first Fine Balance event were invited to submit short articles representing their opinions or concerns about the event, the issues raised and the topics covered. This document offers those articles in full.
Delegate submissions AFB06

Privacy and wireless sensors networks

Privacy and WSN