Bio:
Bart Preneel received the Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where he is currently a full professor. He was visiting professor at several universities in Europe and research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific publications. He is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Information Security. He has participated to 25 research projects sponsored by the European Commission, for five of these as project manager. He has been program chair of ten international conferences and he has been an invited speaker at more than 30 conferences. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research. He is president of L-SEC vzw. (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), an association of 60 companies and research institutions in the area of e-security. He is cofounder and conductor of the jazz ensemble of the K.U.Leuven
Webpage: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel
The Privacy Challenge
In this lecture we discuss how the advances in technology are gradually erasing our privacy. We attempt to define privacy and debunk some widely held beliefs about privacy concepts. Next we will evaluate how privacy enhancing technologies can complement an approach based on regulation. In particular, we will present a few examples of data minimization that fall under the broader concept of privacy by design. We conclude by evaluating the potential impact of privacy risks for society at large