About
The RECITALS project is at the forefront of advancing and implementing cutting-edge privacy-preserving technologies for secure and legal data exploitation, which encompass cryptographic anonymous credentials, homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, and differential privacy. These state-of-the-art technologies play a pivotal role in fortifying the security of personal and industrial data assets, with the primary objective of mitigating data leakage, preventing misuse, and safeguarding against privacy vulnerabilities. The essence of this approach is to significantly elevate the overall security of digital services, while ensuring unfaltering secure data access.
Furthermore, RECITALS underscores the paramount significance of trusted secure digital identities in line with eID and the soon to be accepted eIDAS regulations, championing the development of self-sovereign identity solutions that empower users with complete autonomy over their personal data and its utilization. User-controlled digital identities serve as the bedrock for establishing and upholding trust in digital services. The project places a strong emphasis on the importance of usability, scalability, and reliability of privacy-preserving technologies, particularly in the context of supply chains. This entails the seamless integration of these technologies with existing infrastructures and conventional security measures, guaranteeing practicality and efficacy.
Additionally, the project takes into meticulous consideration the diverse data categories and models across organizations in three industrial sectors (energy, telecommunications and healthcare). Proposed solutions within the RECITALS project are both innovative and practical. They are slated to undergo rigorous validation and pilot testing in real-world, federated data infrastructures. This meticulous validation process is essential for assessing the real world effectiveness of privacy-preserving technologies.
The RECITALS project is unwavering in its commitment to compliance with data regulations, particularly those associated with data protection such as GDPR and NIS2 as well as the AI Act. The solutions are meticulously designed with GDPR compliance at the forefront, with an awareness and integration of appropriate standards for underscoring a steadfast dedication to data protection and privacy. This approach ensures that the project goes beyond the state of the art and sets the gold standard in effective and efficient data protection that guarantees privacy and compliance by design by creating an extensible solution that not only works with current regulations but can also be adapted to future developments expected in the EU’s Digital Decade strategy.
In its pursuit of excellence, the RECITALS project actively fosters the development of open-source interoperable solutions. By doing so, it promotes transparency and collaborative innovation, simplifying adoption and adaptation by a broader community. This commitment to open-source solutions represents a leap beyond the current state of technology and fosters a culture of open collaboration.
One of the core tenets of the project is interdisciplinary collaboration. To this end, the RECITALS consortium harmonizes a diverse array of expertise, spanning across the industry, service providers, and legal specialists. This collaborative effort is squarely aimed at ensuring not just rudimentary compliance with regulations, but to also innovate in operationalizing principles such as data minimization and informed developments through comprehensive impact assessments that will push the boundaries of what can be made possible with the combination of data protection, privacy, and AI.
The detailed scientific and technical objectives of RECITALS are:
- Open-source, privacy-preserving and identity management platform
Design an open-source, private-by-design platform for next-generation privacy-preserving data sharing and identity management, boasting services for resilience and compliance with EU regulations. - Operations for privacy-preserving data sharing and identity management
Integrate fundamental but common operations for privacy-preserving data sharing and identity management into a module that facilitates the development of diverse, complex applications through a library of state-of-the-art techniques. - Advanced privacy-preserving services for industrial-strength data
Building on the fundamental operations provided by the previous objective, develop advanced, privacy-preserving services to be used in real, industrial-strength data sharing and identity management applications, while ensuring their compliance with domain-specific EU regulations in an automatic way. - Cybersecurity component
Develop a cybersecurity component that is capable of automatically detecting and mitigating common as well as advanced and AI-powered threats against the core and value-added services of the project’s platform. - Diverse industrial and scientific applications
Demonstrate the potential of the RECITALS platform and services in real business scenarios across diverse industrial sectors.