Thursday, January 19, 2012

Jerome Becquart, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Government Task Force, and Eric Le Saint, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Systems Committee
With more and more transaction and interaction becoming electronic, privacy concerns are on the increase. This is especially true in the context of government-to-citizen and government-to-employee transactions.
The emergence of contactless technology as the preferred interface for smart card transactions is increasing the risk of data leakage. The result is that more personal data than ever before is being shared to create a web of information about who we are and what we do.
Some people believe that the information they are required to provide during a government transaction is excessive and irrelevant, especially as recent devices in the marketplace now make it easier than ever to capture sensitive details transmitted over-the-air and over-the-Internet. With so much personal information already available, questions are being asked as to how this information is stored, exchanged and used by the authorities.