Table Of Content

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• References
• PART ONE – PROBLEM DOMAINS
• Your Passport, please! – An overview of the history of ID Documents
• Introduction
• Identity and Identification in Early European States
• Identity and Identification in the Medieval Age
• Identity and Identification in Modern Times
• Summary
• References
• Legal aspects of global vs. sector-specific identification numbers
• Introduction
• Identifiers in the public sector
• Context specific, sector-specific and global identifiers
• Application field – ID numbers are ‘personal data’
• Legitimacy principle
• Data quality and the reuse of personal data
• Specific provision on the usage of global ID numbers
• Appropriate technical and organizational security measures
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• References
• ID numbers from a social perspective
• Introduction
• Functions, benefits and drawbacks of ID numbers
• Introduction
• The difference between names, identifiers and addresses
• Names, identifiers, addresses and ID numbers
• Potential benefits and drawbacks of ID numbers
• References
• ID-numbers: Symbols of Bureaucracy
• References
• Summary of the sociological approaches
• ID-Number Policies and Profiling Practices
• Key findings of FIDIS research on profiling (workpackage 7)
• Enabling legal-technological framework for automatic profiling
• User control
• The transparent consumer- citizen
• Unification or interoperability: single or multiple ID-number policies?
• References
• PART TWO – COUNTRY REPORTS
• General trends with regard to ID numbers: Belgium
• Introduction
• The RRN-number
• Usage of the RRN in the Belgian eID. How it should be?
• Other ID numbers processed by municipalities
• ID number for social security
• The Fiscal number
• The Enterprise number
• Conclusion
• References
• ID number policy: Report on France
• References
• Universal ID numbers in three Visegrad countries
• ID number in Hungary
• ID number in the Czech Republic
• ID number in the Slovak Republic
• References
• Country Report Germany, Austria, Switzerland
• Introduction
• Germany
• Austria
• Switzerland
• Findings: Comparison of ID number policies
• Country Report The Netherlands
• References
• Summary and conclusions
• Summary
• References
• Conclusions
• References
• ANNEX Composition of ID Numbers in EU countries