How to obtain and guarantee privacy and data protection in our digital world is one of today's most pressing and debated issues. Diverging national legislation and differing cultural concepts of privacy, in combination with increasing user concerns about the protection of personal data in cyberspace prevent all of us from fully utilizing the enormous potential of the internet. The recent European Union proposal for a general data protection regulation is but one example of the urgent necessity to assess and overcome this challenge.

The acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering project "Internet Privacy", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and supported by the corporations Google Germany, Nokia, Deutsche Post, and IBM, is in the process of developing research-based recommendations for policy makers, industry, and academia on how to establish cultures of privacy and trust on the internet. In order to approach this challenge from the required multidisciplinary perspective, the project brings together seven academic research groups from the areas of technology, sociology, economics, ethics, and law, as well as corporate experts.

During the first project phase the project participants produced a comprehensive survey of the status quo of Internet Privacy, including societal perceptions of privacy on the Internet and relevant technological, legal, economic, and ethical framework conditions. This survey will be presented and discussed on March 26, 2012 in Berlin.

Please join us and a large number of experts, among them State Secretary Dr. Georg Schütte (BMBF), Prof. Helen Nissenbaum (New York University, author of "Privacy in Context"), and Dr. Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute) in discussing our preliminary results and mapping the further course of our project on Internet Privacy in Germany and abroad. Your contribution will be of great value to the project.

Symposium "Internet Privacy - A CULTURE OF PRIVACY AND TRUST ON THE INTERNET"
March 26, 2012
Humboldt Carré
(Behrenstrasse 42, 10117 Berlin)  

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