Resources
- Identity Use Cases & Scenarios.
- FIDIS Deliverables.
- Identity of Identity.
- Interoperability.
- Profiling.
- D7.2: Descriptive analysis and inventory of profiling practices.
- D7.3: Report on Actual and Possible Profiling Techniques in the Field of Ambient Intelligence.
- D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy.
- D7.6 Workshop on AmI, Profiling and RFID.
- D7.7: RFID, Profiling, and AmI.
- D7.8: Workshop on Ambient Law.
- D7.9: A Vision of Ambient Law.
- D7.10: Multidisciplinary literature selection, with Wiki discussion forum on Profiling, AmI, RFID, Biometrics and Identity.
- D7.11: Kick-off Workshop on biometric behavioural profiling and Transparency Enhancing Technologies.
- Forensic Implications.
- HighTechID.
- Privacy and legal-social content.
- Mobility and Identity.
- Other.
- IDIS Journal.
- FIDIS Interactive.
- Press & Events.
- In-House Journal.
- Booklets
- Identity in a Networked World.
- Identity R/Evolution.
Conclusion
The analysis of the European legal framework on data protection aimed at illustrating the main principles that apply in an AmI environment and to discuss the lacunae in legal protection that can arise. Taking into account the fact that the general Data Protection Directive was adopted in 1995, it can easily be explained why some of the most important principles on which current privacy protection is based contradict the vision of Ambient Intelligence – an AmI world was simply not thought of when the data-protection framework was conceived. However, as has been clearly illustrated, even the provisions of the more recent ePrivacy Directive do not manage to keep up with the technological developments: it is not always easy to determine whether a service is an electronic-communications service or an information-society service in order to identify which legal provisions apply, and there is no clear justification why the specific provisions of the ePrivacy Directive on location-based services only apply when the service is offered via a publicly available electronic communications network and not via a private network.
The data-protection legislation aims at the protection of individuals against the unjustified processing of personal data. The existing legislation imposes quite severe restrictions on the processing of personal data, based mainly on a model where there is a direct – be it on-line or off-line – contact between the controller and the individual in question. This is an outdated paradigm in light of the vision of Ambient Intelligence. Therefore, careful reflection is required on the interaction between the legal obligations in the current legislative framework and the development of new emerging technologies and AmI applications. Neither should be allowed to completely overrule the other.
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