Enabling Crowd-sourcing-based Privacy Risk Assessment in EU: the Privacy Flag Project

Abstract

Personal data have become merchandisable asset encouraging stakeholders to collect and trade them without end-user's awareness and acceptance. Although EU is adapting the legal framework, the extent of applications most of which are developed from outside the EU jurisdiction, strongly limit the possibility to effectively impose a privacy-protection framework globally. The Privacy Flag project researches and combines the potential of crowdsourcing, ICT technologies and legal expertise for enabling citizens monitoring and controlling their privacy1.