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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR PerSoCloud (Jan 2017 - Dec 2020)

Partners: Orange Labs (coordinator), PETRUS (Inria-UVSQ), Cozy Cloud, U. of Versailles.

The objective of PerSoCloud is to design, implement and validate a full-fledged Privacy-by-Design Personal Cloud Sharing Platform. One of the major difficulties linked to the concept of personal cloud lies in organizing and enforcing the security of the data sharing while the data is no longer under the control of a central server. We identify three dimensions to this problem. Devices-sharing: assuming that the primary copy of user U1's personal data is hosted in a secure place, how to share and synchronize it with U1's multiple (mobile) devices without compromising security? Peers-sharing: how user U1 could exchange a subset of his-her data with an identified user U2 while providing to U1 tangible guarantees about the usage made by U2 of this data? Community-sharing: how user U1 could exchange a subset of his-her data with a large community of users and contribute to personal big data analytics while providing to U1 tangible guarantees about the preservation of his-her anonymity? In addition to tackling these three scientific and technical issues, a legal analysis will guarantee compliance of this platform with the security and privacy French and UE regulation, which firmly promotes the Privacy by Design principle, including the current reforms of personal data regulation.

GDP-ERE, DATA-IA project (Sept. 2018 - Jan. 2022)

Partners: DANTE (U. of Versailles), PETRUS (Inria-UVSQ).

The role of individuals and the control of their data is a central issue in the new European regulation (GDPR) enforced on 25th May 2018. Data portability is a new right provided under those regulations. It allows citizens to retrieve their personal data from the companies and governmental agencies that collected them, in an interoperable digital format. The goals are to enable the individual to get out of a captive ecosystem, and to favor the development of innovative personal data services beyond the existing monopolistic positions. The consequence of this new right is the design and deployment of technical platforms, commonly known as Personal Cloud. But personal cloud architectures are very diverse, ranging from cloud based solutions where millions of personal cloud are managed centrally, to self-hosting solutions. These diversity is not neutral both in terms of security and from the point of view of the chain of liabilities. The GDP-ERE project tends to study those issues in an interdisciplinary approach by the involvement of jurists and computers scientists. The two main objectives are (i) to analyze the effects of the personal cloud architectures on legal liabilities, enlightened by the analysis of the rules provided under the GDPR and (ii) to propose legal and technological evolutions to highlight the share of liability between each relevant party and create adapted tools to endorse those liabilities. http://dataia.eu/actualites/linstitut-dataia-vous-presente-le-projet-gdp-ere-rgpd-et-cloud-personnel-de-lempowerment

Postdoc DIM RFSI, Ile-de-France Region (2019 - 2020)

Partners: Inria (PETRUS).

This project is a continuation of Julien Loudet's Phd thesis. Julien finalized a CIFRE thesis defended in October 2019. This thesis is the result of a solid collaboration (another CIFRE thesis was defended in 2018) between the PETRUS team and the startup Cozy Cloud, which is also working on the personal cloud issue. The project finances 8 months of postdoc for Julien. The objective is to enforce the collaboration with Cozy Cloud by allowing the postdoc (i) to submit an extended journal paper on his last results (DISPERS protocol), (ii) to realize a detailed specification of the distributed protocols developed during his PhD for their implementation in the Cozy Cloud platform and (iii) to collaborate with a future PhD candidate of a new thesis in collaboration with Cozy Cloud exploring decentralized automatic learning techniques in the personal cloud context.