Towards a better understanding of the impact of emerging ICT on the safety and security of the Citizen

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has taken initiative to investigate, assess and forecast issues of the exploitation of digitalized personal data of citizens in our forthcoming digital society. It responds that way to some of the key challenges put forward in the Communication from the Commission “Europe 2020” and to one of its flagship initiatives, the "A Digital Agenda for Europe". The issues addressed are namely Trust and Security, a vibrant digital single market through building digital confidence and ICT-enabled benefits for the EU society and Intelligent Transport Systems for safer, more secure and more efficient transport and better mobility in Europe. The paper describes the current organization and the research roadmap of the Traceability and Vulnerability Assessment Unit of the JRC and its partners. It illustrates the unit’s objectives for the coming years and into the European Unions 8th Research Framework program in respect to the digital security of citizens.

KOUNELIS Ioannis;  LOESCHNER Jan;  MAHIEU Vincent;  MUFTIC Sead;  NORDVIK Jean Pierre;  STIRPARO Pasquale; 

2013-04-04

IEEE Computer Society

JRC64587

978-0-7695-4530-1,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC64587,