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Interacting in the Internet, users should be empowered to use only those subsets of their personal attributes, called partial identities, which are appropriate for the actual situation and context. Refraining from acting under few and easily linkable partial identities is a prerequisite for trustworthy privacy. Traditionally user-controlled identity management systems primarily support individuals interacting with organisations, but mainly ignore special needs which arise if individuals interact with each other. To support online communities those systems have to change.
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From TU Dresden: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann, head of the privacy and security group, and the research assistants Dipl.-Inform. Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann, Dipl. Medien-inf. Katja Liesebach and Dipl.-Inform. Sandra Steinbrecher.
From ULD, Kiel: Dipl.-Inform. Marit Hansen, head of PET division.
Research Focus: Privacy in Identity Management and Application Design
This work was funded in part by the PRIME project which receives research funding from the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science.
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Borcea-Pfitzmann, K., Hansen, M., Liesebach, K. et al. Managing one’s identities in organisational and social settings. DuD 31, 671–675 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-007-0221-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-007-0221-y