Digital Privacy by Camenisch, Jan; Leenes, Ronald; Sommer, Dieter;

Long description:

This book documents the R&D outcome of the PRIME Project, an R&D project partially funded by the European Union?s Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science. PRIME has focused on privacy-enhancing identity management techniques and systems to support users? sovereignty over their personal privacy and enterprises? privacy-compliant data processing. During the course of four years, the project has involved over a hundred researchers and professionals from 22 major European academic and industrial organizations conducting R&D work in areas relevant to digital privacy. The book presents 28 detailed chapters organized in five parts: Introductory summary, legal, social, and economic aspects, realization of privacy-enhancing user-centric identity management, exploitation of PRIME results for applications, conclusions drawn and an outlook on future work.

As the first coherent presentation of the topic, this book will serve as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for anybody working on digital privacy.

Table of Contents:

Part I Privacy and Identity Management.- An Introduction to Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management.- Part II Setting the Stage.- The Identity Landscape.- The Need for Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management.- Regulating Identity Management.- User-Centric Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management.- Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management in Business.- Part III What Technology Can Do for Privacy and How.- Introduction: Privacy, Trust, and Identity Management.- Architecture.- Pseudonyms and Private Credentials.- Privacy Models and Languages: Access Control and Data.- Privacy Models and Languages: Obligation Policies.- Privacy Models and Languages: Assurance Checking.- Privacy-Aware Access Control System.- Privacy-Aware Identity Lifecycle Management.- Privacy Assurance Checking.- Security/Trustworthiness Assessment of Platforms.- Further Privacy Mechanisms.- Reputation Management.- Human-Computer Interaction.- Technology Assurance.- Multilateral Interactions.- Part IV PRIME Applied.- Collaborative E-Learning.- Location-Based Services.- e-Health.- Airport Security Controls.- Privacy and Identity Management Requirements.- Part V Conclusion and Outlook.