How do smart cards help to protect privacy?
Smart cards offer a number of features that can be used to provide or enhance privacy protection in systems. The following is a brief description of some of these features and how they can be used to protect privacy. • Authentication. Smart cards provide mechanisms for authenticating others who want to gain access to the card. These mechanisms can be used to authenticate users, devices, or applications wishing to use the data on the card’s chip. These features can be utilized by a system to protect privacy by, for example, ensuring that a banking application has been authenticated as having the appropriate access rights before accessing financial data or functions on the card. • Secure data storage. Smart cards provide a means of securely storing data on the card. This data can only be accessed through the smart card operating system by those with proper access rights. This feature can be utilized by a system to enhance privacy by, for example, storing personal user data on the card ra
