D11.1: Collection of Topics and Clusters of Mobility and Identity – Towards a Taxonomy of Mobility and Identity

Title: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

Summary and Conclusion

This chapter explored some essential concepts fundamental to Work Package 11 of the FIDIS NoE. Most importantly, we want to make explicit that the term mobile identity is mainly used as a mobile idem identity type. This means that in the process of identity building, people reflect about the mobile idem identities (which are third person perspectives) in order to constantly (re-) develop a sense of self (the ipse identity or the first person perspective). Related to mobile identity management, it is important to stress that when the end user is not able to control the digital or mobile identities ascribed to him or her, the positive freedom of self constitution and thus the ipse identity building may be ‘limited’ to a large extent. If one’s negative freedom - including the opportunity to have some control of the access to personal information- is in danger because no ‘enacted view’ on (mobile) identity management is developed, then the self constitution of people is at stake, and this affects the European constitutional democracy. Therefore, referring to Roussos et al. (2003), aspects as locality, reciprocity and understanding must be integrated into Privacy Enhancing Mobile Identity Management Technologies.