"This year, the HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Technology Award category received the most nominations as 15 different technology vendors of different sizes and specialties competed for recognition. This year’s winner is PRIME: the Privacy and Identity Management for Europe project, an E.U. funded research initiative that focuses on privacy and identity management (IAM) schemes and their impacts on a variety of fields and industries including e-commerce, e-government, e-health, finance, travel and telecommunications." (see paragraphs on the bottom of the IAPP Press Release)