Is Privacy Supportive for Adaptive ICT Systems?
Sven Wohlgemuth · 2014
Adaptive ICT systems promise to improve resilience by re-using and sharing ICT services and information related to electronic identities and real-time requirements of business networking applications. The aim is to improve welfare and security of a society, e.g. a "smart" city. Even though adaptive ICT systems technically enable everyone to participate both as service consumer and provider without running the required technical infrastructure by oneself, uncertain knowledge on enforcement of legal, business, and social requirements impedes taking advantage of adaptive ICT systems. Not only IT risks on confidentiality and accountability are undecidable due to lack of control with the current trust infrastructure but also IT risks on integrity and availability due to lack of transparency. Reasons are insufficient quantification of IT risk as well as unacceptable knowledge on cause-and-effect relationships and accountability. This work introduces adaptive identity management to improve control and transparency for a trustworthy spontaneous information exchange as the critical activity of adaptive ICT systems.