New policies and protections
With so much data being exchanged on a daily basis and cybersecurity an increasingly critical concern worldwide, privacy and security remain an important focus for IBM. We continue to engage with the private, public and civil sectors to develop new thinking and practices to help meet society’s expectations of privacy and data protection—and to set exemplary policies and practices without our own enterprise.
Our 2008 priorities as they relate to privacy and security included:
- Operating as an efficient and trusted globally integrated enterprise—with a globally consistent approach to data protection and strategic engagement in public policy discussions underway on four continents
- Enabling the privacy and security of emerging technologies such as cloud computing and social software
- Responding to market opportunities related to security and data protection for our clients and society at large
PrimeLife: Bringing sustainable privacy and identity management to future Internet services
This three-year research project, begun in March 2008, is being undertaken by the PrimeLife Consortium and funded by the European Commission. Chaired by IBM, the Consortium includes leading universities, companies and technology organizations in the U.S. and Europe. The goal is to address how to protect privacy and personal information in emerging applications, focusing on such areas as human computer interfaces, configurable policy languages, virtual communities and Web service federations. The Consortium will also work with Open Source Communities and standardization bodies to ensure widespread adoption of privacy technology.