Marit Hansen is a computer scientist and is
head of the "Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)" Section and the
"Innovation Centre Privacy & Security" at Independent Centre for
Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (the state privacy commission; Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz),
Since her diploma in 1995 she
has been working on security and privacy aspects especially concerning the
Internet, anonymity, pseudonymity, identity
management, biometrics, multilateral security, and e-privacy from both the
technical and the legal perspectives.
In several projects she and
her team actively participate in technology design in order to support PET and
give feedback on legislation, e.g., "AN.ON - Anonymity online"
(2001-2006 - www.anon-online.de),
"SPIT-AL - SPIT Prevention Solution" (2005-2006 - www.spit-filter.com) or "PRISE -
Privacy enhancing shaping of security research and technology"
(2006-2008). Marit Hansen works in particular on
user-centred identity management and eID systems: