Privacy – Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics, PRACTIS research project is aimed at defining and identifying the potential impacts of developing and emerging technologies, and the impacts of scientific knowledge, on privacy. The objective of the research project is to suggest means of controlling the potential risks of new technologies while at the same time getting the maximal benefits from these technologies.
One of the goals is to investigate ethical and legal questions concerning privacy and to develop frameworks to deal with these questions when the emerging technologies become more common in the future. The aim of the project is also to deepen our understanding of how different people, and possibly different generations of people, perceive the impacts of new technologies on their lives and the possible threats posed by these technologies to their privacy.
PRACTIS-project is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU and it is carried out during 2010-2012 in co-operation with the co-ordinator of the project, Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting (ICTAF, Tel-Aviv University.
Partners in the project are:
- Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting (ICTAF, Tel-Aviv University); Co-ordinator
- Foundation for European Scientific Cooperation, FEWN (Poland),
- Research Centre in Informatics and Law of the University Faculties of Notre-Dame de la Paix, FUNDP (Belgium),
- The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, ICCR (Austria),
- Tel Aviv University, TAU (Israel),
- Nexus, Berlin (Germany) and
- Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku.
Further information:
Burkhard Auffermann, Senior Researcher
burkhard.auffermann(a)utu.fi
> Finland Futures Research Centre