Government as a privacy-protective Identity Provider: the New Zealand case

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Presented at AUScert 2008 by

Vikram Kumar

Abstract: The New Zealand Government is developing a service that allows people to verify their identity online to a near-passport level to government agencies. This service will protect peoples? privacy without unique national identifiers or a national identity card. The concepts behind the service can be extended to authoritatively verify information online that is held by government agencies about them. Intended audience: Academia / Consulting / IT, IS Managers / Media / Marketing / Policy and Government Analysts / Research / Technical and architects / Vendors and System Integrators Learning objectives: 1. Distinguish between identity, attributes, assertions, claims, authentication, and authorisation. 2. Demonstrate how government can be a privacy-protective Identity Provider. 3. Debate the need for unique national identifiers and national identity cards. 4. Recommend an online solution for giving information to government only once. 5. Question how user-centric identity approaches, including Windows CardSpace and OpenID, can be used in the government context.