Ambient Intelligence Space &Identity
FIDIS NOE
WP2 Kick-off meeting
Taxonomy of Identity, Anonymity and Pseudonymity
Brussels
Tuesday 2 December 14h40-15h00
Ambient Intelligence Space &
Identity
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
Seville, Spain
http://www.jrc.es
http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int
Why Identity – A definition
 Identity : unify privacy and security issues under
one umbrella
 A product of social interactions which define a Society
Emerging European
Information Society
 two major processes for identity:
- A building process
- An identification process
The future of identity
Identity – present and future
 the Issue:
Erosion of time
and space borders
A lack of continuity,
Disruptive situations
 the Challenge:
Bridge the growing gap between a physical subject and
the information which defines that subject’s identity.
Ambient Intelligence space
 Definition:
Integration and migration of technologies,
infrastructures, applications and services
across different AmI environments (home,
car, airport, neighbourhood, etc..)
 An ambivalent space:
- Ubiquitous and intelligent user-friendly interfaces
- A major threat of an “always on” surveillance
 The challenges:
- Manage the disappearing of the physical barriers of proximity
-Respect the need for private spaces and “moments”
-Preserve the positive effect of Distance
Concept of Digital Territory
New digital borders for privacy, security, identity and online social interactions issues.
A dynamic transparency or permeability of the digital borders evolving on demand.
A permanent or temporary sphere of information and communication with its specific properties
Build Digital
Boundaries
Create
Digital Territory
Illustrative areas of the digital territory:
- the second skin
Individual
Sphere
- the bubbles
Group,
Family
Sphere
- the virtual residence
Society
Sphere
- the digital public space
Disappearance of
boundaries between
the real world and the
digital one
Information Society
technologies
Domestication
To be used as a legally certified identity
‘native profile’ containing e.g. cloth size, allergies etc.
The skin is closed linked to the location of a person
(e.g. for location-based services)
it is ‘touchable’: which may provoke an action, give a
strong feed-back, involves safety-critical issues
To retrieve information from & to your environment
Filtering & selection of data based on selected criteria
Created whenever necessary for personal, group or global
use and has a temporary nature
Used as a manageable concept for various interfacing
occasions
A private Digital Territory considered as a legal Sanctuary
An extension of the physical residence
A passive protection against potential abusive intrusions
An active protection against potential cybercrimes
A temporary space
Free of access
Give juridictions
Identity - RFID
 Radio Frequency Identification Systems:
Identify any object anywhere automatically
 Main characteristics:
- Contact less
- Out of sight
- Embedded in personal items.
 Privacy and security issues
- Local or centralised data storage
- The link between the tag and the item’s owner
- Future localisation capabilities
RFID Tags examples
 Tyres
- Out of sight
- Long life cycle
- impossible to be physically destroyed
The wealthiest
target
 Bank notes
- Increase risk of theft
- commercial segregation
RFID reader
Identity – bio-implants, DNA sniffers
 Bio-implants:
- An identification system (RFID tag)
- A future tool for the identity building process
 DNA sniffers:
- A future identification system
The MS Passport paradox
 The MS Passport paradox:
- the new security layer for registration is
based on human recognition
- Biometrics tends to
exclude human intervention
from the identification
process
Crime scene bubble
Virtual Residence in AmI space
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The need for a virtual residence concept in the future AmI environment arises
because of the need to preserve the security-privacy balance as in the physical
world.
Virtual residence is about creating a legal and social ethic which could
contribute to clarifying the difference between public and private spheres and
which would also respect the integrity of the virtual residence
The Virtual Residence concept will facilitate people’s use of multiple identities
aiding them establish an acceptable level of security while respecting their
privacy; legal and social questions will have to be answered to allow
individuals figure out where to position their zone of privacy and what the
necessary safeguards to protect it will be.
A new digital Territory
- Ubiquitous computing
- Smart home
- Home critical infrastructure
- Health at home
Domestic
Networks
Internet
Life
- Personal or family
Web-site
- identity platform
- personal data
- Life online
- Intelligent agent, avatars
A legal Sanctuary
An extension of the physical residence
Virtual residence
A passive protection against potential abusive intrusions
An active protection against potential cybercrimes
Establish clear boundaries for the online private sphere
Erosion of boundaries between online and real life
Domestic critical Infrastructures
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Privacy/Security: Same Fight
The case of Identity theft:
The drivers
• Privacy emerged as a key issue of the European Information
Society
• Identity : a single umbrella for privacy and security concerns