Event

Identity Management: Future Threats and Opportunities

9 June 2014, 12pm

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Venue: Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET

Time: 12:00-17:00, Monday 9th June 2014

In the digital era, identity management technologies, services and practices (IM-TSP) have created both threats and opportunities. IM-TSP have led to widespread concern over data privacy, whilst also enhancing security and efficiency across public and private sectors. In the UK and USA, citizens regularly take issue with government and company ownership of their personal data. However, there is also a growing public appetite for identity sharing through social networks, customer profiling, collaborative filtering and various loyalty schemes. Why are we concerned about electronic patient files, yet willing to share personal details on Facebook?

To better understand these conflicting public responses to identity management, the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research IMPRINTS project offers an analysis of public and professional expectations surrounding IM-TSP. Project outputs will provide commercial, government and security actors with the knowledge and methodologies to develop their own IM-TSP in line with consumer expectations. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, this ongoing project was selected as a ‘Big Idea for the Future’ by Research Councils UK in 2011.

To facilitate cross-sector discussion on identity management and public responses to IM-TSP, the event brought together more than 60 delegates from government, civil society and the IM project itself to showcase project findings, collect feedback on project outputs and generate forward-looking research insights.

View the Summary Report from the event here. For more details please see the RUSI website.

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