PACTMAN: Trust, Privacy and Consent in Future Pervasive Environments

在我们生活的世界里，我们获取个人用户数据的能力远远超出了我们对如何管理信任、隐私和同意问题的理解，这可能对个人和社会产生深远的影响。如果在这个领域没有独立的学术研究，我们就会冒着隐私和信任被牺牲的风险，匆忙地商业利用这些新的传感能力。在这个项目中，我们将进行开创性的跨学科研究，在未来无处不在的环境中创建世界上第一个全面的隐私和同意管理系统，即具有广泛传感能力的环境。我们的工作基于两种情况——人类记忆增强和个性化信息呈现。这两种应用都有可能改变我们社会的关键领域，但也会引发严重的隐私和同意问题，这些问题可能会阻碍它们的部署。我们的工作涉及多个利益相关者，包括NHS和BBC，他们代表了这些应用场景，并致力于在项目的整个生命周期中与项目密切合作。该项目将利用计算机科学、设计和心理学的专业知识，为同意和隐私提供新的模型，并详细了解未来普及环境中用户的认知漏洞，从而形成隐私和同意管理的原型平台。除了为我们的利益相关者带来显著的短期利益外，如果项目成功，该项目有可能将英国定位为未来无处不在的环境中隐私和同意方面的国际领导者，并有助于促进数字经济这一重要领域的出现。

We live in a world in which our ability to capture personal user data far exceeds our understanding of how to manage issues of trust, privacy and consent with potentially far-reaching consequences for both individuals and society. Without independent academic research in this space we run the risk of privacy and trust being sacrificed in the rush to commercially exploit these new sensing capabilities. In this project we will conduct pioneering interdisciplinary research to create the world's first comprehensive system for privacy and consent management in future pervasive environments, i.e. environments with a wide range of sensing capabilities. Our work is informed by two scenarios - human memory augmentation and personalised information presentation. Both applications have the potential to transform key areas of our society yet raise significant privacy and consent issues that are likely to inhibit their deployment. Our work involves multiple stakeholders including the NHS and the BBC that represent these application scenarios and that are committed to working closely with the project throughout its lifetime. The project will draw on expertise from computer science, design and psychology to deliver both new models for consent and privacy and, a detailed understanding of the cognitive vulnerabilities of users of future pervasive environments, resulting in a prototype platform for privacy and consent management. In addition to delivering significant near-term benefits to our stakeholders, if successful the project has the potential to position the UK as an international leader in privacy and consent in future pervasive environments and to help catalyse the emergence of this important area of the digital economy.