The Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) was launched in 2014. It is a practical initiative encouraging the development of methodologies and tools which can effectively foster privacy-enhancing technologies or PETs.
It supports the creation of engineer groups working on (re)-usable building blocks, design patterns and other tools for selected internet use cases where privacy is at stake.
IPEN welcomes participants from different areas such as data protection authorities, academia, open source and business development and other individuals who are committed to finding engineering solutions to privacy challenges.
The objective of the work should be to integrate data protection and privacy into all phases of the development process, from the requirements phase to production, as it is most appropriate for the development model and the application environment.
It supports networking between engineer groups and existing initiatives for engineering privacy into the internet. This network facilitates exchange in order to coordinate work and avoid duplication, in addition to discussing which privacy oriented use cases should be addressed with priority.
IPEN is building a repository of relevant resources, making its findings and knowledge base accessible to all participants, developers and privacy experts.
A core group takes care of collection and distribution of information, liaises with other relevant initiatives, facilitates the dialogue on engineering solutions, and organises online and offline events.
September can mark the season of new beginnings! Here at the EDPS we are getting ready for AI! This month we’ve also provided our advice on an agreement for judicial cooperation and its impact on data protection. You can also swing by our latest work on international data protection transfers and lots more!
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The EDPS and the University of Karlstad are hosting an Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) event on "Human supervision of automated decisions" on 3 September 2024 from 14:00 to 18:00 CEST, at Eva Eriksson lecture hall, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden and online.
The EDPS and INRIA organised on 31st May 2023 an Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) event on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). With this event, the EDPS wanted to stimulate a discussion in order to clarify the expectations regarding the XAI, its limitations and misunderstandings.
Our last newsletter of the year 2022 is out now! Read up on our latest conference on data protection in the field of criminal justice; our Opinions, like the one on the EU Media Freedom Act. Learn more about which technologies should be monitored in 2023. And do not forget to follow us on our two alternative social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video! This issue is also part of our podcast series, the Newsletter Digest.
Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski on the occasion of the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) webinar: "Synthetic data: what use cases as a privacy enhancing technology?" in Brussels, Belgium (via video link).