Introduction: Privacy, Trust, and Identity Management

Abstract

Part III of the PRIME Book is dedicated to an in-depth discussion of the technological side of the PRIME project. Part III is structured such that the current chapter gives an introduction to this part of the book and the concept of trust which is foundational to PRIME and its choices of technology. The technical discussions start with a discussion on architectural aspects with the focus on a privacy-enhancing architecture describing how different privacy technologies can be integrated into a system for an improved protection of the privacy of users in Chapter 9. The discussions on the architectural aspects are followed with elaborations on relevant technologies that are described in detail following the chapter on the architecture aspects. The detailed structure of Part III is presented further below in Section 8.2.