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Communication technologies, biometric methods, the capabilities of sensors and the technical potential to analyse huge amounts of data are progressing constantly and quickly. Technical progress allows for ever deeper views and intrusions into private life. Apart from economic interests, applications of these technologies in the context of security do specifically represent a major driving force behind excessive use of these opportunities at the cost of the fundamental right of privacy. The major objective of the EU-project PRISE was to develop criteria and recommendations for security technologies and security research in line with human rights in order to allow for privacy enhancing implementation and use of security technologies. The results of the PRISE-project are based on the combined application of different research approaches: apart from traditional TA-methods, participative processes played a central role. Stakeholders and users of security technologies as well as citizens from six European countries were involved in the participatory activities of this research project.
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The full title of the PRISE project is “Privacy enhancing shaping of security research and technology—A participatory approach to develop acceptable and accepted principles for European Security Industries and Policies”.
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PASR stands for “Preparatory Action on the enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security research”.
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Apart from the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as coordinator further project partners were the Danish Board of Technology, the Norwegian Board of Technology and the Independent Centre for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein. The participatory technology assessment activities in Spain and in Hungary were conducted by the subcontractors Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unit of Comparative Policy and Politics, Madrid and the Medián Opinion and Market Research Institute, Budapest.
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Čas, J. (2010). Privacy and Security: A Brief Synopsis of the Results of the European TA-Project PRISE. In: Gutwirth, S., Poullet, Y., De Hert, P. (eds) Data Protection in a Profiled World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8865-9_15
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