The Future of Identity in the Information Society [electronic resource] : 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1-7, 2008, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Vashek Matyáš, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Daniel Cvrček, Petr Švenda.

Historic Perspective – Lessons Learned or Not? -- Software Security – The Dangers of Abstraction -- History of Privacy -- Information, Ethics, Identifiers -- Applied Ethics and eHealth: Principles, Identity, and RFID -- Identity Management Systems in Healthcare: The Issue of Patient Identifiers -- A Survey on Transparency Tools for Enhancing Privacy -- Privacy Issues -- When Spiders Bite: The Use, Misuse, and Unintended Consequences of “Silent Information” -- Data Retention and Anonymity Services -- A Survey on Non-transferable Anonymous Credentials -- Wireless Security and Privacy -- Security of Wireless Communication -- Enhancing Multilateral Security in and by Reputation Systems -- Challenges of Emerging Technologies -- An Overview of Electronic Passport Security Features -- Location Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Privacy-Enhanced and Anonymous Applications -- Design and Analysis of a Practical E-Voting Protocol -- Business and Organisational Perspectives -- Comparing Identity Management Frameworks in a Business Context -- Security Policy Satisfiability and Failure Resilience in Workflows -- Privacy Awareness and Individual Control -- User Control Problems and Taking User Empowerment Further -- Privacy Awareness: A Means to Solve the Privacy Paradox? -- Testing Privacy Awareness -- The Relationship between Data Protection Legislation and Information Security Related Standards -- Anonymity Attacks and Analysis -- Investigating Anonymity in Group Based Anonymous Authentication.

This book constitutes the refereed postconference proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6, 11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2008. The 20 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing. They are grouped in topical sections on information, ethics, identifiers; privacy issues; wireless security and privacy; challenges of emerging technologies; privacy-enhanced and anonymous applications; business and organizational perspectives; privacy awareness and individual control; and anonymity attacks and analysis. These interdisciplinary contributions target researchers and practitioners interested in the technical, social, ethical or legal perspectives of increasing diversity of information and communication technologies.