Projects
PROTECT: Protecting Personal Data Amidst Big Data Innovation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The overall goal of PROTECT is to grow a new generation of 14 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), as PhDs graduated via a unique multidisciplinary, inter-sectoral and international European Training Network ETN).
The network will investigate the protection of rights and interests of individuals and groups impacted by the continuous large-scale analysis of personal data, while still enabling the economy and society to benefit ...
eFficient decentRAlized proCessing of high-velociTy streamIng data spread across heterogeneous persONal data vaults Ghent University
Today, service providers govern the centralized storage & processing of personal data. Due to regulation (e.g. GDPR) and increasing awareness about data sensitivity, a paradigm shift towards decentralization is imminent. This allows people to control their personal data, by guarding all public & private data they or others create about them in a vault, and selectively granting access to people & organizations of their choice. ...
The GDPR and big health data. Fundamental challenges to the EU personal data protection framework KU Leuven
Healthcare and biomedical research both require and produce vast quantities of data. This exponential growth of data results from and feeds into three broad and related trends concerning: 1) biomedical sciences and technology, 2) organisation of public services and free markets, and 3) individuals in the contemporary society. One phenomenon that reflects all the above trends is “big data”, traditionally described by a reference to three Vs: ...
FRACTION: eFficient semantics-pReserving And deCenTralized processIng of Big Data spread across persONal data vaults Ghent University
Today, centralized stores govern the storage and processing of Big Data. Due to regulation (e.g. GDPR) and increasing awareness of people about data sensitivity, a paradigm shift towards decentralization is imminent. This allows people to control their own personal data, by guarding all public and private data they or others create about them in a vault, and selectively granting access to people and organizations of their choice. Future uses ...
Processing of personal data regarding ethnic origin and disability for statistical purposes to combat discrimination. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How young children cope with online personal data collection by commercial parties? Ghent University
Children are confronted with commercial messages at increasingly younger ages. Accordingly, advertisers are searching for new strategies to break through the clutter and attract children’ attention. One way of doing so is by personalizing the advertisements. This can be done by integrating the name of the child or by responding to the child’ interests. To be able to personalize the advertisements, they need to collect the personal data from ...
PIMCITY: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION PERSONAL DATA PLATFORMS KU Leuven
The Web economy has been revolutionized by unprecedented possibility of collecting massive amounts of user personal data, which lead the web to become the largest data market and created the biggest companies in our history. Unfortunately, this change has deep consequences for users, who, deprived of any negotiation power, are compelled to blindly provide their data for free access to services. Data collection is opaque, fragmented and ...
uSer-friendly digiTal sEcured peRsonal data and prIvacy plAtform KU Leuven
SOTERIA aims to drive a paradigm shift on data protection and enable active participation of citizens to their own security, privacy and personal data protection. SOTERIA will develop and test in 3 large-scale real-world use cases, a citizen-driven and citizen-centric, cost-effective, marketable service to enable citizens to control their private personal data easily and securely. Led by an SME, this project will develop, using a user-driven ...
Brokerage and market platform for personal data KU Leuven
KRAKEN Secure and privacy preserving platform (broKeRage And marKEt platform for persoNal data) aims to bring personal data sharing and trading at a level of maturity that does not yet exist, by leveraging on:
i) the emerging paradigm of self-sovereign identity built upon a stack of distributed ledger technologies (multi-ledger) which ensures future compatibility with different specific blockchain implementations for identity management. ...