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

Title: STRUCTURE AND CONTENT

Structure and Content

This document is structured in 6 main chapters, representing the different perspectives (legal, socio-cultural, technological, etc.) of the topical cluster of “mobility and identity”.  

Starting with chapter 2, a general overview is given and the relation to other deliverables of the FIDIS NoE is laid out. Also the motivation for this document as the initial starting point for the work of Work Package 11 is presented, linking the different fields to the work done in FIDIS. This should help to build a common view on the topic of mobility and identity – towards taxonomy of mobility and identity.

Chapter 3 describes the concept of partial identities and their application to mobility and identity relevant aspects in a mobile working environment. The presented scenarios are used to describe the connection between partial identities and the concepts of mobility and identity. Furthermore, the change of borderlines between communicational contexts is described, when specific partial identities are moved (e.g. work life vs. private live) or communicational contexts are shifted, due to a change of control of the partial identity.

In chapter 4, the sociological foundations and notions towards mobility and identity are laid out and described in detail (e.g. idem and ipse identity). Within this section, the basic concepts of mobility, identity, mobility and identity, identity management, etc. are described from the viewpoint of sociology, linking to the technologies being used for the management of identities, such as Privacy Enhancing Mobile Identity Management Technologies (cp. chapter ).

The European regulatory framework and law perspectives towards the protection of an individual’s privacy are the central topic of chapter 5. Here, the basic laws and regulations relevant for mobility and identity as well as the relevant terms are introduced and discussed, laying the focus especially on the processing of data, as the implications from this directives are important for e.g. location based services (LBS), etc. Furthermore, the issues towards the digital projection of a user and the protection of the private sphere of an individual and its right of informational self-determination are further discussed in this chapter.

Chapter 6 aims towards the technological facet of mobility and identity, extending the concepts described in FIDIS deliverable D3.3. Here, technologies for the de-identification in mobile ad-hoc networks and the delegation of rights in identity management are introduced as application scenarios for mobility and identity. Furthermore, the PRIME application prototype is introduced, as a state of the art application scenario for privacy-respecting mobile applications.

The last chapter (chapter 7) gives an overview of the upcoming work of Work Package 11 on “Mobility and Identity” and its future deliverables: 

• D11.2: Location based services (LBS)

• D11.3: Economic aspects of mobility and identity