Privacy requirements specification for digital identity management systems implementation: Towards a digital society of privacy

Knowing more details about people´s identities is in the same time becoming one of the digital society´s growing needs and compromising security. Privacy protection is perceived as medium that would secure people´s identities, reduce identity theft and increase trust. In many digital identity management system implementation initiatives, privacy needs are only dealt from technical perspective and they are not considered as being part of the core software requirements from the beginning of projects. In this article, we explain that privacy is to be dealt from the start with an integrated and multidisciplinary approach. Therefore, we provide a specification of privacy requirements that are drawn from global, domestic, and business-specific privacy policies. The requirements are to be considered in the design phase of digital identity management systems.