GlobaliD - Privacy Concerns on a Federated Identity Provider Associated with the Users' National Citizen's Card

Abstract

Personal information sharing is one of the most common online activities. Most of the times we feel forced to give up about some privacy in order to share a piece of information with others. This paper reflects on the anonymity, integrity, privacy of users’ personal information and it’s scattering across the Web by taking an approach to digital identity management concept. Consequently it also reflects on the users’ information certification and accountability. In this paper we purpose a Federated Identity Management solution for the Web to decrease the privacy issues and avoid the lost of anonymity that may occur when users exchange their particular information within web contexts. We will use a collection of publicly available strong identification mechanisms, such as the users (Portuguese) National Electronic Citizen Identity Card, and a Federated Identity initiative to create the GlobaliD, a Federated Identity Provider to address the previously mentioned reflections. Our aim with the development of GlobaliD is to take a step further in the digital identity management and therefore in the privacy and anonymity safety of the users identity Online by making it more versatile, responsible, trustworthy, integrity and privacy safe, anonym and thus secure.