The afternoon will comprise a series of chaired working groups, each focusing on the application of privacy enhancing technologies to a specific industry or commercial sector. They will discuss and recommend areas for future research, as well as strategies and activities to advance the technologies and their necessary safeguards.

Below we offer an overview of the topics each working group session will cover:

Intelligent transport and road user charging
The debate over road user charging rages in the UK whilst other European countries have already implemented successful systems that are praised by industry and public alike. This session looks at how to alleviate data privacy concerns for this and other intelligent transport systems. It will highlight what applications the term ‘intelligent transport’ covers and review the range of technologies involved in intelligent transport systems including mobile communications, inter-vehicle communication, in-vehicle navigation devices and asset and vehicle tracking.

eHealth and Assisted Living Security
ICT for Health (eHealth) has the potential to make a significant contribution to the better management of healthcare provision. In this session particular attention will be paid to the primary and secondary uses of trustworthy electronic health records that will enable the sharing of timely and up-to-date patients’ medical data to support “high quality care”, “continuity of care across boundaries” and “medical and health policy research”. Interoperability, and security to ensure privacy and to protect the confidentiality of personal data are prime requirements to achieve those goals in eHealth and assisted living.

This session will further address identity management issues, privacy enhancing technologies and the role of trusted third parties in the domain of health and assisted living. Opportunities and obstacles will be analysed from the perspectives of the different eHealth stakeholders: health and data protection authorities, health care and assisted living professionals, patients and industry.

Web 2.0
The Internet has changed. Static content is being usurped by multimedia, virtual worlds and interactive sites. No longer are we watching the web, we are playing out our lives within it. The second generation of web use brings with it huge opportunities to demonstrate the understanding of technology companies that privacy is a fundamental requirement for Web 2.0. This session will evaluate how PETs can make Web 2.0 a safer place to be. It will review social networking, virtual worlds, data aggregation and location-enhanced services.

Surveillance cameras and systems for social control
There is a fundamental debate over whether surveillance is a tool for the state rather than for public safety. Surveillance systems are there to help reduce crime, increase protection and create a safer environment. Constant improvement to surveillance technologies help improve the way we monitor public and private spaces. These developments must happen with privacy in mind. This session will look at existing and future methods of social control and surveillance, identifying where PETs can be build into the design phase and increase the emphasis on privacy-aware surveillance technologies.

Biometrics and privacy
Biometrics is rapidly moving from technological development to widespread deployment in many sectors of society. While it is important that citizens and industry enjoy the full advantages of those technologies, it is equally important that the best deployment choices are made, considering convenience and security as well as protection against adverse effects. These might include identity theft, inferring personal health indicators from biometric scanning or discriminatory side-effects on those not able to provide certain biometrics. The presence of such effects could undermine long-term trust in the use of biometrics. This session will address current and future applications for biometric systems, in order to provide comprehensive feedback to the industry and research community, so that the best technical and ethical deployment approaches can be further targeted.

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