Abstract
Abstract Each individual is unique, and the digital identity associated with a person should model and guarantee this uniqueness and the ability to reliably recognize him/her. In this paper, we review the challenges posed by the sudden transfer of a significant part of the social activity in the online realm, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with unforeseen consequences on the educational process in particular. If there was a fairly large spectrum of economic activities that were taking place or were facilitated via a digital medium prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system worldwide proved to not have been prepared to provide an effective and consistent response to the going online approach, which was merely a choice, but rather the only embraceable option. In the context of online education, this paper can design a comprehensive and integrated framework for assisting the process of students’ digital identity validation, particularly when attending an examination or any other form of academic evaluation conducted remotely. We also consider the integration of digital identity validation with platforms that offer educational content, knowledge evaluation tests, and other elements to which access must be ensured only for authorized users, based on a strict identity identification process to eliminate those who want to defraud or disrupt the functionality of the system.
Highlights
We live in a social landscape where the need and ability to prove that we are who we assert we are has become the quintessential aspect of the social contract and may underpin many online activities
Digital identity has become a topic of interest for researchers as the number of publications delivered in the last decade and indexed in well-quoted scientific databases, such as Thomson Reuters and Scopus exceeds 500 papers and 900, respectively
The long-term vision of this ongoing research is to integrate other biometrics and location-based mechanisms to support users’ identification as well as to create a distributed, fault-tolerant and permanently available system, assisted by an economic structure and services that allow but are not limited to: protection of personal data in accordance with current legislation, European Union recommendations and international best practices; profiling access to personal data according to the characteristics of the requesting entity, such as "need to know basis"; to control of personal data will be driven by the data owner; to impersonate, digital identity generation, association with physical identities, digital identity profiling; services for identity consultation, authentication services, services for federalization of authentication
Summary
We live in a social landscape where the need and ability to prove that we are who we assert we are has become the quintessential aspect of the social contract and may underpin many online activities. Authentication establishes that a subject engaged in trying to access a digital service controls the technologies used for authentication (World Bank Group – GSMA, 2016). As the public increasingly uses electronic services to look for a job, to enrol in an education program, volunteering, etc., a lot of personal data about education, family, and insurance are multiplied and transmitted via the Internet. Many copies of this data are not properly managed by those who request them, and the affected person, entitled, for example, to request those documents’ destruction under GDPR laws, may have completely forgotten about those copies. The management services will transmit to the user-designated organizations only that data which is strictly necessary
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