The Future of Identity in the Information Society

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rannenberg, Kai (Editor), Royer, Denis (Editor), Deuker, André (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Business.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer security.; Computers and civilization.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Systems and Data Security.; Computers and Society.

Digitising personal information is changing our ways of identifying persons and managing relations, e.g. over the Internet. What used to be a "natural" identity, e.g. the personal appearance of an individual at a counter, is now as virtual as a user account at a web portal, an email addres...

Table of Contents:

• Putting the Machines in Control
• Identity of Identity
• Virtually Living in Virtual Realities
• Virtual Persons and Identities
• Use and Abuse of Biometric Data and Social Networks
• High-Tech ID and Emerging Technologies
• Powering the Profile: Plugging Into the Mobile Grid
• Mobility and Identity
• Human Enhancement, Robots, and the Fight for Human Rights
• Approaching Interoperability for Identity Management Systems
• More Control for the Machines
• Profiling and AmI
• The Role of Forensics in Identity
• Identity-Related Crime and Forensics
• Dating
• Privacy and Identity
• Open Challenges — Towards the (Not So Distant) Future of Identity.