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URL: http://www.smartcardalliance.org
Individuals
are currently required to confirm their identity for many diverse purposes,
such as verifying eligibility within a health care system, accessing a secure
network or facility, or validating their authority to travel. In almost every
discussion about implementing personal identification (ID) systems to improve
identity verification processes, concerns about privacy and the protection of
personal information quickly emerge as key issues. Government agencies and
private businesses that are implementing ID systems to improve the security of
physical or logical access must factor these issues into their system designs.
While technologies are available that can provide a higher level of security
and privacy than ever before, ID system complexity coupled with increasing
public awareness of the risks of privacy intrusion require that organizations
focus on privacy and personal information protection throughout the entire ID
system design.
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