The first workshop of the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN),
recently founded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS),
could not have had a more symbolic location: Berlin State Parliament,
right beside the remaining parts of the Berlin Wall that separated
Western Germany from the German Democratic Republic until 1989.
Surveillance of its citizens by the Stasi (state security) was
widespread in Eastern Germany, and, 25 years later, we are back in a
situation where mass surveillance is supported by the globalized
Internet and has been heavily enforced by Western governments to fight
terrorism. Further, insecure protocols and the lack of technical
measures to protect data in current Internet technology make it easy to
circumvent privacy. For these reasons and more, IPEN was founded to
support the development of privacy-friendly technologies and raise
awareness not only among software engineers.
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