From the 11th to the 13th of September, the projects funded within the framework of the BMBF funding guideline on data trustee models in science and practice met for a network meeting in Berlin. We as DROPS project presented our poster there and took this opportunity to learn more about the other projects. Our poster summarises the first results of work package 2 of the project.
At the beginning of this year, the research project “DROPS” (Data escrow module for the preventative protection of identity data against misuse) has started. As you can see on our website and as we will explain on our blog, we are working on technical and legal solutions for the data-privacy conscious ingestion, processing, and usage of leaked identity data. The overall aim is to construct a platform which allows companies and individuals to protect themselves, by easily being able to check if their data was contained in any data leak. At the same time, data security is of the utmost important to prevent follow-on damage from processing such sensitive data. The platform will be realized in the form of a data escrow module so that the data is saved and processed at a central, secured place. For example, a specific reporting office according to the EU whistleblower directive and its national implementations could run or use this platform. Central in this case, however, does not mean that there is only one instance of this platform and one reporting office, but each reporting office can have its instance of the platform, according to its needs. This overall platform is made possible through minimal data storage, the highest security measures during analysis and usage, as well as the right legal framework.