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e-ID, transparency, applications, privacy

Abstract:

Since mandating in 2004 that all Belgian citizens carry electronic identification cards (e-ID), Belgium has been at the forefront of trends in electronic identification. As an e- ID card has become a necessity for service provisioning, the government has also started with distribution of e-ID cards to non-Belgians and children under the age of 12. Up until quite recently, the e-ID card only held the basic information of citizenship. This paper will examine the evolution of the e-ID card, and discuss the privacy issues of multi-application data on one card as the recent announcement of data for additional applications reopens the discussion of data linkage and data privacy for a card that is mandatory in usage.