Privacy in digital identity systems: Models, assessment, and user adoption

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Abstract

The use of privacy protection measures is of particular importance for existing and upcoming users’ digital identities. Thus, the recently adopted EU Regulation on Electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) explicitly allows the use of pseudonyms in the context of eID systems, without specifying how they should be implemented. The paper contributes to the discussion on pseudonyms and multiple identities, by (1) providing an original analysis grid that can be applied for privacy evaluation in any eID architecture, and (2) introducing the concept of eID deployer allowing virtually any case of the relationship between the user, the eID implementation and the user’s digital identities to be modelled. Based on these inputs, a comparative analysis of four exemplary eID architectures deployed in European countries is conducted. The paper also discusses how sensitive citizens of these countries are to the privacy argument while adopting these systems, and presents the “privacy adoption paradox”.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElectronic Government - 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2015, Proceedings
EditorsEfthimios Tambouris, Peter Parycek, Hans Jochen Scholl, Konstantinos Tarabanis, Bram Klievink, Marijn Janssen, Mila Gasco, Ida Lindgren, Maria A. Wimmer
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages273-290
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783319224787
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Event14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 30 Aug 20152 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9248
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period30/08/152/09/15

Keywords

  • Digital identity
  • E-Government
  • Multiple/partial identities
  • Personal data
  • Privacy
  • Privacy adoption paradox
  • Privacy by design
  • Privacy impact assessment
  • Pseudonymous authentication
  • Selective disclosure
  • Technology adoption
  • eID
  • eID deployer
  • eIDAS

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