A European Commission-funded research project to measure civil society's pulse on privacy and security launched this week, Security Document World reports. The PRISMS project (Privacy and Security Mirrors: Towards a European Framework for Integrated Decision Making), will look at the relationship between surveillance, security and privacy, according to the report. "It should be possible to provide greater security, even without infringing fundamental rights," says project coordinator Michael Friedewald. Eight organisations will partner on the project, which will embark on a survey to measure the feelings of 27,000 citizens with regards to security and privacy.
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