ANR KISS (Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2015)

Partners: Inria-SMIS (coordinator), Inria-SECRET, LIRIS, Univ. of Versailles, CryptoExperts, Gemalto, Yvelines district.

SMIS funding: 230k€.

The idea promoted in KISS is to embed, in trusted devices, software components capable of acquiring, storing and managing securely various forms of personal data (e.g., salary forms, invoices, banking statements, geolocation data, depending on the applications). These software components form a Personal Data Server which can remain under the holder’s control. The scientific challenges include: embedded data management issues tackling regular, streaming and spatio-temporal data (e.g., geolocation data), data provenance-based privacy models, crypto-protected distributed protocols to implement private communications and secure global computations.

ARC CAPPRIS (Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2015)

Inria Large Scale Initiative.

Inria Partners: PRIVATICS (coordinator), SMIS, PLANETE, CIDRE, COMETE.

External partners: Univ. of Namur, Eurecom, LAAS.

Funding: not associated to individual project-teams.

An ARC is a long-term multi-disciplinary project launched by Inria to sustain large scale risky research actions in line with its own strategic plan. CAPPRIS stands for "Collaborative Action on the Protection of Privacy Rights in the Information Society". The key issues that will be addressed are: (1) the identification of existing and future threats to privacy, (2) the definition of formally grounded measures to assess and quantify privacy, (3) the definition of the fundamental principles underlying privacy by design and methods to apply them in concrete situations and (4) The integration of the social and legal dimensions. To assess the relevance and significance of the research results, they will be confronted to three classes of case studies CAPPRIS partners are involved in: namely Online Social Networks, Location Based Services and Electronic Health Record Systems.

PEPS PAIP (Pour une Approche Interdisciplinaire de la Privacy) (Sept. 2013 - Sept. 2014)

Partners: ADIS and SMIS (co-organizers), CERDI, DANTE, COMETE, GRACE, TPT, LIMSI.

Funding: 30K€ from CNRS, not associated to individual project-teams.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI) will be the UPSa IDEX catalyst for multidisciplinary research on societal challenges inherent to eLife/life digitization. DSI plans to be one of the European leading institutes fostering multidisciplinary research across ICTS and SHES. In 2013 DSI already hosts two kick-off major research projects : (1) Human and Machine Coevolution and (2) Privacy/digital identities. ADIS and SMIS are co-organizing project (2) on data privacy. The PEPS PAIP is part of project (2) and aims at fostering the cooperation between lawyers, economists and computer scientists on privacy issues, through the organization of brainstorming days and workshops and a study of possible joint experiments of privacy preserving applications.

Digiteo LETEVONE chair (2010-2013)

Partners: LIX (Ecole Polytechnique), PRiSM (UVSQ), DBWeb (Telecom ParisTech), Exalead S.A..

Funding: Grant covers the expenses of Pr. Vazirgiannis’ visits to France (hosted by LIX) and of 2 PHD students.

Participant in the DIGITEO Learning Techniques for Evolving Networks chair, held by Pr. Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business) from 2010 to 2013. The overall objective of the proposed project is mining and learning from the large scale and dynamically evolving data and graphs generated in the Web 2.0 context. Our particular collaboration has delt with privacy protection of users’ data in this context.