The PRIMA project

Problems with Internet privacy and security are a major obstacle. A lot of tools and instructions to increase privacy and security are available on the net; however the normal user often does not have the time to pick the right tools and combine them.

The goal of ITO's project PRIMA is the development and integration of security and data protection technologies for todays internet. We are focussing on concepts to empower the user to actively manage his privacy. Real-world usability and compatibility with existing web services are top priorities.

We work in the following areas:

Data Journals

The European Union's data protection regime grants all citizens the rights to revoke consent for certain usage of personal information by a service provider at any time. However, in the world of electronic services, the user often has no information who is actually the provider of a certain service.

A data journal is a tool that supports the user in managing his personal information that has been disclosed to services. It records which information was given to a certain service, tries to identify the provider and which data protection policies apply. The user can access this data at a later time to identify service providers who are misusing his information.

So far, ITO has developed two prototypes: The Data Manager is a HTTP proxie and works with any browser. The IJournal is plug-in component for the open-source web browser Mozilla.

Download and test the IJournal yourself!

MozPETs - a privacy enhanced Web Browser

We have chosen the Open Source browser Mozilla as the base of the PRIMA prototype. The result is a web browser that has advanced privacy protection integrated without losing compatibility with existing web services.
Our prototype, called MozPETs, is avaible here: http://mozpets.sf.net (Sourceforge.net).

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