Personal Information Self-Management: A Survey of Technologies Supporting Administrative Services

This paper presents a survey of technologies for personal data self-management interfacing with administrative and territorial public service providers. It classifies a selection of scientific technologies into four categories of solutions: Personal Data Store (PDS), Identity Manager (IdM), Anonymous Certificate System and Access Control Delegation Architecture. Each category, along with its technological approach, is analyzed thanks to 18 identified functional criteria that encompass architectural and communication aspects, as well as user data lifecycle considerations. The originality of the survey is multifold. First, as far as we know, there is no such thorough survey covering such a panel of a dozen of existing solutions. Second, it is the first survey addressing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) management for both administrative and private service providers. Third, this paper achieves a functional comparison of solutions of very different technical natures. The outcome of this paper is the clear identification of functional gaps of each solution. As a result, this paper establishes the research directions to follow in order to fill these functional gaps.