Tools for Managing Private Information

IBM's Zurich Research Lab is working on giving users more control over personal information disclosed in Web 2.0 social networking platforms. Funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme, The PrimeLife—Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life—project also will work on solutions for their to manage their "Web prints," the traces of ourselves that we leave each time we use the Internet.

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