The Future Identity in the Inf. Society – Challenges for Privacy and Security, Brno, Tschechien

<P><SPAN class=texto><SPAN class=texto><SPAN class=texto>The increasing diversity of Information &amp; Communication Technologies and their equally diverse range of uses in personal, professional and official capacities raise challenging questions of identity in a variety of contexts&#046; What constitutes an identity, how do new technologies affect identity, how do we manage identities in a globally networked information society?<BR>After the success of the 2007 IFIP/FIDIS Summer School, the focus of this Summer School to be held in 2008 at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, will be on security and privacy issues in the Internet environment, and namely aspects of Identity Management in relation to current and future technologies in a variety of contexts&#046; FIDIS supports interdisciplinary exchange and IFIP takes a holistic approach to technology&#046; So participants’ contributions combining technical, socio&#8211; economic, ethical, philosophical, psychological or legal perspectives on challenges for privacy and security in relation to identity aspects are welcome&#046;</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><B>Keywords:</B> <BR>identity management, security, profiling and customer relation management, data mining, advanced identity solutions, access control, ID related crime, computer forensics, RFID, tracking technologies, biometrics, privacy, anonymity and pseudonymity, identities in social networks, surveillance, data retention, availability, legal and economic aspects of security, impact on social exclusion / digital divide / cultural issues, case studies for the use of identifiers in various application areas, trust and accountability&#046;