This Workshop tries to bring together the IT-industry with a need for the management of personal data like e-health, customer relation management, new online community services etc on the one hand and privacy researchers from all over the world on the other hand. See the following section on scope for more specific information.
The automatic processing and exchange of personal information is a central part of today's IT landscape, in both government and business contexts. To allow enterprises to control data effectively according to regulations, agreements or privacy policies, design of privacy technologies has to extend beyond user-facing front-ends. Tools have to allow control of the whole privacy value-chain.
The technologies used for privacy control need to be integrated with diverse systems and environments. These environments range from legacy systems to advanced emerging technologies such as service-oriented architectures, web services, and novel web applications and cross-business processes.
This workshop is expected to explore a number of technologies that will help to address privacy needs in this context:
Similar privacy issues also arise in novel Web applications: When web services are combined in "mash-ups", personal information is processed by several service providers; users need to understand how the privacy policies of these providers interact, and users' privacy preferences need to be enforced.
The workshop is expected to consider the applicability of and lessons learned from existing and emerging technologies in privacy and user-centric identity management, including XACML, P3P, APPEL, and emerging solutions and approaches from the vendor and research communities. The workshop is also expected to consider the applicability of Semantic Web technologies to privacy enforcement use cases.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together vendors, researchers, users, and the broader privacy community to identify specific areas for further work on languages for privacy policies and enforcement, and to make recommendations to W3C about possible next steps toward developing specifications in these areas.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 21 July 2006 | Call For Participation issued. |
| 13 September 2006 | Deadline for position papers. |
| 22 September 2006 | Acceptance notification sent |
| 8 October 2006 | Deadline for registration; program released. |
| 17/18 October 2006 | Workshop. |
Position papers are the basis for the discussion at the workshop. These papers will also be made available to the public from the workshop site.
Position papers should contribute to the workshop's discussion about
They should also explain the participants' position with respect to possible specific work items that W3C could take up in within the workshop's broader scope.
All papers should be 1 to 5 pages, although they may link to longer versions or appendixes.
Accepted position papers will be published on the public Web pages of the workshop. Submitting a position paper comprises a default recognition of these terms for publication. Allowed formats are (valid) HTML/XHTML, PDF, or plain text. Papers in any other formats will be returned with a request for correct formatting. Good examples of position papers can be seen in the W3C Workshop on Usability and Transparency of Web Authentication.
The Program Committee may ask the authors of particularly salient position papers to explicitly present their position at the workshop to foster discussion. Presenters will be asked to make the slides of the presentation available on the workshop homepage in HTML, PDF, or plain text.
Position papers must be submitted via email to team-privacy06-ws@w3.org no later than 13 September 2006.
The workshop will be hosted by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission around Lago Maggiore near Ispra/Milano.
Position papers will be put on the workshop's web-site. The agenda and the accepted presentations will also be published online. The chairs will issue a report with further recommendations no later than 20 December 2006.