W3C-Tracking Protection: Release of First Public Working Drafts

Today, the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group has released its First Public Working Drafts (FPWD):

“To address rising concerns about privacy on the Web, W3C publishes today two first drafts for standards that allow users to express preferences about online tracking:

These documents are the early work of a broad set of stakeholders in the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, including browser vendors, content providers, advertisers, search engines, and experts in policy, privacy, and consumer protection. W3C invites review of these early drafts, expected to become standards by mid-2012. Read the full press release and testimonials and learn more about Privacy.”

This release has triggered an entry in IBM’s Privacy Blog as well as a series of news items. My involvement in the W3C DNT Working group is partially supported by the EU TClouds Project.

Journal: TClouds und Sicherheit der Cloud (in German)

We’ve submitted an article (in German) to the Datenschutz Datensicherheit journal:

Ninja Marnau, Norbert Schirmer, Eva Schlehahn, Matthias Schunter: TClouds – Herausforderungen und erste Schritte zur sicheren und datenschutzkonformen Cloud. To Appear in Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 2011.

Abstract Das von der Europäischen Kommission geförderte Projekt TClouds hat die Entwicklung einer sicheren und datenschutzkonformen Cloud-Infrastruktur zum Ziel. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die Herausforderungen und die ersten Lösungsideen.

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Workshop on Cryptography and Security in Clouds

We have organized a Workshop on Cryptography and Security in Clouds. The workshop was well received. We had about 110 participant with a fair share of participants from industry:

“The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cryptography and security, from academia and industry, who are interested in the security of current and future cloud computing technology. The workshop considers the viewpoint of cloud-service providers as well as the concerns of cloud users. The goal is to create a dialogue about common goals and to discuss solutions for security problems in cloud computing, with emphasis on cryptographic methods.

Invited speakers:

  • Giuseppe Ateniese, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Ari Juels, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, USA
  • Benny Pinkas, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  • Thomas Ristenpart, UCSD and University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Rodrigo Rodrigues, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
  • Radu Sion, Stony Brook University, USA”

The workshop is co-sponsored by the EU Projects and .

CloudCycle project will be funded by German Government

As announced on March 01, the German government will fund the CloudCycle project. I acted as editor of the project proposal. CloudCycle aims at enabling migration of cloud services as well as interoperation of cloud management. The homepage of CloudCycle can be found at www.cloudcycle.org.