The Future of Identity in the Information Society - Challenges and Opportunities

Digitising personal information is changing our ways of identifying persons and managing relations. What used to be a 'natural' identity, is now as virtual as a user account at a web portal, an email address, or a mobile phone number. It is subject to diverse forms of identity management in business, administration, and among citizens. Core question and source of conflict is who owns how much identity information of whom and who needs to place trust into which identity information to allow access to resources.
This book presents multidisciplinary answers from research, government, and industry. Research from states with different cultures on the identification of citizens and ID cards is combined towards analysis of HighTechIDs and Virtual Identities, considering privacy, mobility, profiling, forensics, and identity related crime.
'FIDIS has put Europe on the global map as a place for high quality identity management research.' -V. Reding, Commissioner, Responsible for Information Society and Media (EU)


Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg holds the T-Mobile Chair for Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt (www.m-chair.net) since 2002. Since 2004Kai is Coordinator of the EU Network of Excellence 'Future of Identity in the Information Society' (FIDIS). Since March 2007 Kai is Cenvenor of the JTC 1/SC 27 / WG 5 'Identity management and privacy technologies'. Kai's current research interests include

• Mobile applications and Multilateral Security in e.g. M-Business, M-Commerce, M-Banking, and Location Based Services;
• Privacy and identity management, communication infrastructures and devices, such as personal security assistants and services;
• IT security evaluation and certification.

Denis Royer completed his diploma in business informatics at Braunschweig Technical University (Germany) in 2003. At the Chair for Mobile Business and Multilateral Security he was working on mobile identity management, decision support systems for the introduction of enterprise identity management systems (EIdM) process models. Currently he is an external PhD student at the Chair for Mobile Business and Multilateral Security, working for Sirrix AG in Bochum (Germany).
André Deuker received his diploma in business administration from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2007. Since autumn 2007 he has been working as a PhD student and research assistant at the T-Mobile Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security. André is editor and contributor of various FIDIS deliverables.