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Secure Identity Alliance SIA the global identity and secure digital services advisory body announced a partnership with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology IIK at Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU. The objective of the partnership is to work on Privacy by Design principles and evaluate the way they are architected into the implementation of a National Identification Systems Use Case leveraging the ground-breaking OSIA framework.A digital public good OSIA is an open standard set of interfaces APIs that enables seamless connectivity between building blocks of the identity management ecosystem independent of technology solution architecture or vendor.Spearheaded by the Multidisciplinary Research group on Privacy and data protEcTion MR PET at NTNU the programme of work will evaluate the implementation level of key Privacy by Design principles into use cases leveraging the OSIA framework.Using the LINDDUN privacy threat modelling the programme aims to identify privacy threats in a systems implementation and address them with appropriate privacy mitigation strategies.Teaming up with SIA to further integrate privacy principles into National Identity Systems leveraging OSIA is an exciting development for our research group comments Livinus Obiora Nweke Research Fellow at MR PET NTNU. This partnership provides us with a unique opportunity to work with relevant stakeholders across the identity management ecosystem.Privacy and data protection are broad topics encompassing a variety of issues and challenges in many different contexts. Developing an effective privacy and data protection solution for OSIA requires a collaborative understanding of law science technology ethics and society studies. This partnership between MR PET and SIA underscores the important contribution multidisciplinary research can make to the enhancement of privacy and data protection by design requirements and control methods that feature in OSIA states Mohamed Abomhara Researcher at MR PET NTNU.Commenting on the SIA partnership with the NTNU Matt Cole Chairman of the Board at the SIA said Privacy and security are at the core of the products and services the identity industry offers. Working with the NTNU will enable us to draw on cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights and know-how to address todays complex privacy and data preservation issues to provide technical guidance and to share best practices in the implementation of identity programmes.To ensure an ethical and responsible approach to managing citizens data identity ecosystems must embed privacy by design from repositories through to interface levels says Debora Comparin Chair of the OSIA initiative. Were delighted that this new partnership with NTNU will enable us to further entrench within OSIAs implementations the guiding privacy by design principles practices and technical standards that will enable governments around the globe to evolve their national ID systems with confidence to initiate secure and transparent digital ID schemes that protect the privacy of all.
