On the 13th of October 2015, the Joint Pictures Experts Group (JPEG) organised a workshop in Brussels on privacy and security support for image data. Privacy and security is becoming steadily more important seen the fact that image collections are increasingly more stored in distributed and cloud repositories rather than in private repositories. Moreover, social media and online photo repositories, for example, are currently offering insufficient means to secure privacy-sensitive information carried by the picture or to signal associated IPR metadata.
Privacy and security concerns and handling IPR is critical when dealing with digitised cultural heritage content, and hence an important focus for Photoconsortium. During the upcoming JPEG workshop in Brussels, JPEG experts wanted to learn from actors in the field about their needs related to privacy and security and as such shape the development of future standards. The workshop was targeted on understanding industry, user, and policy needs in terms of technology and supported functionalities.
Photoconsortium president prof. Fred Truyen talked in the workshop with a presentation entitled “Publishing Archival Photographs: concerns, pittfalls and their technical implications”, and gave an overview of the experienced challenges related to providing public access to photographic content.
This invitation by Jpeg to participate at the meeting stengthens the already launched collaboration with Photoconsortium, following the previous Jpeg meeting in Warsaw.
More information can be found on the jpeg.org website. Additional information on the new Privacy and Security work item is also available here.
