Report on EEMA e-Identity Conference in Paris

Published: June 25, 2007, 1:16 pm

Tags: digital identity, privacy, digital rights

Marcus Lasance has a new blog called IdentitySpace that brings us a comprehensive piece on the EEMA e-Identity conference held recently in Paris. Reading it will give you a feeling for some of the conversations that are going on around identity in Europe. I’ll quote randomly to pique your interest: “Olivier Delos of SEALED gave a good example of how e-Id cards issued by governments can be used to facilitate electronic transactions in the private sector. However anti' the privacy lobby may make us want to feel against such applications, the presented use case of a Belgian Water Company clearly showed what savings can be made when users are allowed to use their Belgium Citizen ID card as an identity service provider. 150,000 address change notifications are now processed this way in a matter of seconds, with zero manual input, zero errors and a user satisfaction rating of ten out of ten. “Unfortunately this type of example where businesses are allowed to

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