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Lawful evidence collecting and continuity platform development

Descrizione del progetto

Raccolta di prove digitali per combattere il crimine

La tecnologia avanzata viene utilizzata dai criminali per compiere atti di frode e terrorismo, nonché il furto di proprietà industriale e intellettuale. La tecnologia digitale è utilizzata anche in altri reati. In effetti, l’onnipresenza di strumenti digitali e il loro uso nelle attività criminali rende le prove digitali determinanti per le indagini penali. Tuttavia, non sempre le prove digitali sono ammissibili in un tribunale. Il progetto LOCARD, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di ottenere una piattaforma completa che consenta la memorizzazione di dati di prove digitali e garantisca una catena di custodia adeguata nel lavoro giuridico. LOCARD utilizzerà un «ambiente di esecuzione sicuro» per garantire la privacy e fornire accesso a una serie di prove digitali.

Obiettivo

Digital evidence is currently an integral part of criminal investigations, and not confined to pure cybercrime cases. Criminal behaviours like financial frauds, intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, and terrorist networks leverage the Internet and cyberspace. The very ubiquity of digital devices, e.g. smartphones, in modern society makes digital evidence extremely relevant for investigations about all kinds of criminal behaviour like murder, contraband activities, and people smuggling, to name a few.
Due to its nature, the use of digital evidence in a court of law has always been challenging. It is critical that it should be accompanied by a proper chain of custody, guaranteeing its source and integrity.
LOCARD aims to provide a holistic platform for chain of custody assurance along the forensic workflow, a trusted distributed platform allowing the storage of digital evidence metadata in a blockchain.
Each node of LOCARD will be able to independently set its own permission policies and to selectively share access to digital evidence with other nodes when deemed necessary and upon proper authorization through fine-grained policies. LOCARD's modularity will also allow diverse actors to tailor the platform to their specific needs and role in the digital forensic workflow, from preparation and readiness, to collection, to analysis and reporting.
LOCARD will have a crowdsource module to collect citizen reports of selected violations, a crawler to detect and correlate online deviant behaviour, and a toolkit for investigators that will assist them in collecting online and offline evidence.
This will be powered by an immutable storage and an identity management system that will protect privacy and handle access to evidence data using a Trusted Execution Environment. Blockchain technology will not only guarantee that information about the evidence cannot be tampered with, but allow interoperability without the need for a trusted third party.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-SU-SEC-2018-2019-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-SU-SEC-2018

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 710 613,75
Indirizzo
ARTEMIDOS 6 KAI EPIDAVROU
151 25 Maroussi
Grecia

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Costo totale
€ 710 613,75

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