Privacy Flag - collective privacy protection scheme based on structured distributed risk assessment

This article presents the Privacy Flag European research project model for privacy and personal data protection. The project is researching and developing an innovative model of privacy protection based on crowdsourcing, and combining human and technical distributed control and monitoring of privacy-related risks. The project focuses more specifically on Internet of Things deployments, smart phone applications and websites. It further develops the Privacy Risk Area Assessment Tool (PRAAT) developed by Mandat International in the context of the EAR-IT research project with an international research team combining expertise in law, personal data protection, security and ICT in general.