Today there are many ways to obtain the personal information of others. As systems require higher security standards, advanced automatic identification technologies are becoming the ultimate authentication techniques.

What is the impact of new credentialing technologies, which hold the potential for multiplication of critical data, on privacy and data protection procedures? How does eID correlate with privacy? How is the management of the personal data and digital identities evolving in a scenario that is experimenting the use of web applications in all private and public application areas – such as in the postal sector and in e-government portals?