EU Pumps €10m Into Open Source Privacy Management

"The European Union is contributing 10 million euro (around £8 million [US$15.8 million]) in sponsorship to a project called PrimeLife, which aims to develop open source tools for personal privacy management and protection, and get the community at large to adopt them.

"PrimeLife's co-ordinator is IBM's Zurich research laboratory, and it follows on from an earlier EU-backed project into identity management systems, called Prime (Privacy and Identity Management in Europe)..."

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