What's in a name: the conflicting views of pseudonymisation under eIDAS and the General Data Protection Regulation
What's in a name: the conflicting views of pseudonymisation under eIDAS and the General Data Protection Regulation
Pseudonymisation is gaining traction among modern electronic identification systems as a privacy enhancing technique that can significantly reduce risks of personal data misuse. The recently agreed General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) encourages the use of pseudonymisation to comply with its requirement of privacy-by-design. Art. 5 of the European Regulation on electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) on data processing and protection simply allows the use of pseudonyms in electronic transactions although the facilitation of the implementation of the principle of privacy by design is clearly among the aims listed by Art. 12 of eIDAS. This paper examines the concept of pseudonymisation under eIDAS and the GDPR and suggests that the two Regulations employ two very different, if not incompatible, notions of pseudonymisation. It concludes that a common terminology and approach would be preferable in order to ensure consistency and legal certainty
eID, eIDAS, pseudonymisation, pseudonyms, GDPR
167-174
Gesellschaft für Informatik
Tsakalakis, Niko
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Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie
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O'Hara, Kieron
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14 October 2016
Tsakalakis, Niko
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Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie
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O'Hara, Kieron
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Tsakalakis, Niko, Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie and O'Hara, Kieron
(2016)
What's in a name: the conflicting views of pseudonymisation under eIDAS and the General Data Protection Regulation.
Hühnlein, Detlef, Roßnagel, Heiko, Schunck, Christian H. and Talamo, Maurizio
(eds.)
In Open Identity Summit 2016: October 13–14, 2016, Rome, Italy.
vol. P-264,
Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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Abstract
Pseudonymisation is gaining traction among modern electronic identification systems as a privacy enhancing technique that can significantly reduce risks of personal data misuse. The recently agreed General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) encourages the use of pseudonymisation to comply with its requirement of privacy-by-design. Art. 5 of the European Regulation on electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) on data processing and protection simply allows the use of pseudonyms in electronic transactions although the facilitation of the implementation of the principle of privacy by design is clearly among the aims listed by Art. 12 of eIDAS. This paper examines the concept of pseudonymisation under eIDAS and the GDPR and suggests that the two Regulations employ two very different, if not incompatible, notions of pseudonymisation. It concludes that a common terminology and approach would be preferable in order to ensure consistency and legal certainty
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 July 2016
Published date: 14 October 2016
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Please note that this is an amended version of the original published (version of record) article. The amendments presented in this version aim to further clarify the points raised about selective disclosure and national unique identifiers.
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Open Identity Summit 2016, Rome, Italy, 2016-07-07
Keywords:
eID, eIDAS, pseudonymisation, pseudonyms, GDPR
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Local EPrints ID: 400477
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/400477
ISSN: 1617-5468
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Detlef Hühnlein
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Heiko Roßnagel
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Christian H. Schunck
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Maurizio Talamo
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