1. EPAN – eGovernment WG Interoperability of eGovernment systems The identification number, data sharing and data protection issues
Luxembourg, 25 February 2005

2. Public Research Center – Gabriel Lippmann
Ongoing study by
Public Research Center – Gabriel Lippmann
Research Unit in Information Systems
B. Otjacques & P. Hitzelberger
Ordered by
Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative, Luxembourg
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3. Agenda Motivation Project Definition and Planning State of the Art
Questionnaire
Questions & Answers
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4. Motivation e-Government interoperability
Single Identification Number for citizens and companies is one of the building blocks
SIN underpins and eases Data sharing
Must tackle Political, Legal, Organisational, and Technological Issues, among which Data Protection Issues
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5. Project Definition National Collaboration
Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative
Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann, Cellule de Recherche, d’Etude et de Développement en Informatique
Commision Nationale pour la Protection des Données
Centre Informatique de l’Etat - Service du Répertoire général des personnes
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6. Project Definition
Update of the Belgian study in 2001 on « Electronic identification of citizens and organizations in EU »
Minutes of WG eGov, Nov. 2001: « … necessary for the future debate in this WG to split up the theme of unique id. keys, electronic signatures and electronic id. cards and treat them separately… »
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7. Project Definition Update of the 2001 Belgian study on e-Id
Restriction of scope
Limited to Single Identification Number Issue
Excluded: PKI issues, electronic id. card
Extension of scope
10 new Member States + 4 Candidate Countries
Impact of Data Protection Issues on Data Sharing
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8. Project Planning Elaboration of the questionnaire (12/04 –01/05)
Questionnaire sent to States (01/05)
1st EPAN meeting (02/05)
Analysis of the answers (03/05 – 05/05)
Draft of final report presented at the 2nd EPAN meeting (05/05)
Last modifications to the final report (06/05)
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9. State of the Art Results of the Belgian Study (2001)
Is there a single identification number for natural persons in your country? B DK D GR E F
IRL I L NL A P
FIN S UK
Already exists X
Planned
Not yet planned
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10. State of the Art Results of the Belgian Study (2001)
Is there a single identification number for legal persons in your country? B DK D GR E F
IRL I L NL A P
FIN S UK
Already exists X
Planned
Not yet planned
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11. State of the Art Results of the Belgian Study
Significant differences among the 15 countries!
Political, cultural and legal traditions explains why a SIN for citizens exists in some countries and does not in others
Id. number officially labelled as ‘single’ is in practice not the only tool to identify a citizen
Wide range of specific id. numbers
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12. State of the Art Results of the Belgian Study
Use made of the national id. number, where it exists, varies strongly from one country to another
Continuum from most open to most restrictive legal systems
Id. number technically designed in different ways across EU countries
Personal data linked to id. number varies from one country to another
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13. State of the Art Multiple recent initiatives EU projects
GUIDE: Creating a European Id Management Architecture for e-Government
PRIME: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe
NoE FIDIS: Future of Identity in the Information Society …
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14. State of the Art Recommandations Conferences
Bloomsday Recom. on eGov in eEurope 2005 (June, 2004)
CoBrA Recom. to the eEurope Advisory Group (Sept., 2004) …
Conferences
IDABC Conference, Brussels (Feb., 2005)
E-Gov Interop 2005, Geneva (Feb., 2005)
E-Gov 2005, Copenhagen (Aug., 2005)
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15. Questionnaire Existence of a single id. number Technical aspects
Organisational aspects
Legal issues (data protection)
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16. Questionnaire Existence of a single identification number
Natural vs. Legal persons
Existence of specific id. numbers
Existence of number similar to SIN
Future evolution
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17. Questionnaire Technical aspects Principle of construction of SIN
Random / Personal data coding
Possibilities of SIN modification
Links between SIN and personal data
Name, Sex, Date of birth,…
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18. Questionnaire Organisational aspects Principle of SIN allocation
Public authority managing the DB storing SIN
Processing and transfer of SIN
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19. Questionnaire Legal issues Directive 95/46/EC
National legislation to comply with
National authority monitoring the application of this legislation
National implementation of specific points
Notification, rights of individuals, data sharing…
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20. Questions & Answers Answers received … … Yet to be analysed !
Understanding of the questionnaire ?
Delay to send the answers back ?
Any other question…
Thank you for your attention
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