The idea of a national ID card has been hotly debated for years, but in the wake of September 11th, its time may finally have come.

National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by focusing on the cards themselves or on "privacy." Playing the Identity Card shows not only the benefits of how the state can "see" citizens better using these instruments but also the challenges this raises for civil liberties and human rights. ID cards are part of a broader trend towards intensified surveillance and as such are understood very differently according to the history and cultures of the countries concerned.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Being aware of the criminals who are out to take your money is not enough. A scam by any other name is still a scam, and unfortunately, there are some scams that are perfectly legal that can cause you to lose money. Or perhaps they are imperfectly legal, but at this point in time, the law may not be on your side. A good example of a legal scam is what credit card companies can do legally in many instances. Read these essential truths to gain the knowledge that can protect your wallet.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the two international workshops DPM 2009, the 4th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, and SETOP 2009, the Second International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, collocated with the ESORICS 2009 symposium in St. Malo, France, in September 2009. The 8 revised full papers for DPM 2009, selected from 23 submissions, presented together with two keynote lectures are accompanied by 9 revised full papers of SETOP 2009; all papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The DPM 2009 papers cover topics such as privacy in service oriented architectures, privacy-preserving mechanisms, crossmatching and indistinguishability techniques, privacy policies, and disclosure of information. The SETOP 2009 papers address all current issues within the sope of security policies, identification and privacy, as well as security mechanisms.

The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy—they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, “Should this continue? Is there a better approach?” They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: “What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head.” It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume will be an essential reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day. The premise is clear: there's a problem—let's find a solution.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, SEC 2009, held in Pafos, Cyprus, in May 2009. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on identification and authentication, threats and attacks, applications of cryptography and information hiding, trusted computing, security policies, validation, verification and evaluation, privacy protection and security assessment, role mining and content protection, security protocols, access control, and internet and Web applications security.