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Security and Privacy

Privacy Incorporated Software Agent (PISA)

Privacy Incorporated Software Agent (PISA)

The NRC Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) collaborative research project, Privacy Incorporated Software Agent (PISA), is a three-year, European Union Fifth Framework IST project (PISA RTD IST-2000-26038). Canada is the only non-European partner in the project, which began in January 2001 and is expected to end January 2004.

NRC-IIT is the Canadian lead in PISA. Other Canadian collaborators include Zero-Knowledge Systems in Montreal and the Communications Security Establishment.

European collaborators include TNO (Netherlands), the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Netherlands), University of Delft (Netherlands), Sentient Machine Research (Netherlands), Globalsign (Belgium) and Finsa Consulting (Italy).

The PISA project aims at developing new privacy enhancing technologies for electronic business, such as:

Demonstrating Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) as a secure technical solution to protect the privacy of individuals when they use intelligent agents — such as shopbots, buybots, pricebots or just "bots" — in e-commerce or m-commerce applications, according to EC-Directives on Privacy.
Interacting with industry and government to launch new privacy protected services
Proposing new, open standards for Privacy-Protected Agent Transactions to Standardization Bodies.

More specifically, this research will:

develop techniques for network privacy for agent systems
model scalability for security and privacy technologies
improve the trustworthiness of human computer interfaces

Research Contact

Larry Korba
Group Leader
Information Security
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 286A
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 998-3967
Fax: +1 (613) 952-7151
E-mail: Larry.Korba@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Dr. George Forester
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, NCR
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 203
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-3478
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0074
E-mail: George.Forester@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca