About the foundation

The Privacy by Design Foundation in general aims to improve the development and the use of open, privacy-friendly and secure software.

More in particular, the foundation focuses on the development, roll out, and actual usage of its own system IRMA, an abbreviation of I Reveal My Attributes. With IRMA people can prove in a privacy-friendly and secure manner various personal properties (attributes) about themselves (such as: I’m older than 18), without revealing any other non-relevant information. Via such attributes you can authenticate yourself, for instance in order to log into a webpage.

In addition, IRMA allows its users to create attribute-based digital signature, see IRMA for more information.

Reporting

The first year report, including an overview of activities and a financial report, can be found below. As the foundation was established at the end of 2016 this report includes not only 2017 but also the last months of 2016. These reports are all in Dutch.