New Chair in Cyber Security
The collection of personal data by private companies and public bodies is currently on a massive scale, with multiple benefits for both primary uses (social connections, geolocation guidance systems, electronic medical records, electricity network management, etc.) and secondary uses (studying the spread of viruses, computational sociology, smart cities, etc.).
However, it is also leading to a growing number of massive data leaks and illegitimate, even illegal, uses of personal data.
The main objective of this Chair is to respond to the concerns of individuals and organisations collecting data by consolidating confidentiality guarantees from the management of personal data through to its sharing.
The work of the Chair will have two main objectives:
- ‘Design data protection techniques for the storage and sharing of personal data, based in particular on modern approaches to data anonymisation and encryption;
- ‘analyse the legal guarantees required to ensure that rights are respected’.
This research chair will be managed by Tristan Allard, a teacher-researcher at the University of Rennes and member of the Spicy research team, and Brunessen Bertrand, a law professor at the University of Rennes and at IODE, in partnership with 6 local companies and organisations (Enedis, APIXIT, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Sogescot, Région Bretagne, Veolia France).
For more informations :
(in french only) Fondation Université Rennes : https://fondation.univ-rennes.fr/lancement-de-la-chaire-cybersecurite-protection-des-donnees-et-droits-fondamentaux