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The Role of Biometrics in the Surveillance Age ?

The Role of Biometrics in the Surveillance Age ?. ” Billboard that looks back ”. Biometric identification and privacy. What is biometric identification ? Biometrics can be defined as the automated use of physiological or behavioral characteristics to determine or verify identity

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The Role of Biometrics in the Surveillance Age ?

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  1. The Role of Biometrics in the SurveillanceAge?

  2. ”Billboardthatlooksback”

  3. Biometricidentification and privacy • What is biometricidentification? • Biometricscanbedefined as the automateduse of physiologicalorbehavioralcharacteristics to determineorverifyidentity • Automateduse: Automationmeansthatcomputersormachinesareused to verifyordetermineidentitythroughbehavioralorphysiologicalcharacteristics • Physiological / behavioralcharacteristics: • Physiologicalbiometricsarebased on directmeasurements of a part of the humanbody. • Behavioralbiometricsarebased on measurements and data derivedfrom an action and thereforeindirectlymeasurecharacteristics of the humanbody. • Determine vs. verify: Somebiometricsystemscandetermine the identity of a person from a biometricdatabasewithoutthat person firstclaiming an identity. In verificationsystems a person claims a specificidentity and the biometricsystemeitherconfirmsordeniesthatclaim. • Identity: An individual is a singular, uniqueentity, but an individualcanhavemorethanoneidentity

  4. PrivacyConcernsAssociated with Biometrics • Informationalprivacy: • Biometricsraisesome of the sameissuesthatarisewhenanypersonalinformation is collected • Somespecialconcernscanbementioned: • Unnecessarycollection • Unauthorizedcollection • Unauthorizeduse and functioncreep

  5. PrivacyConcernsAssociated with Biometrics • Physicalprivacy: • The right to befreefromunwanted, unreasonableintrusionsorsearches of one´sbody • Also, freedomfromcontactormonitoringbyothers, whichmightincludesearches, video surveillance and otherforms of monitoring

  6. Conclusion – The Role of Biometrics in the SurveillanceAge? • Use of biometrictechnologiesbecomingprevalent • Biomericshave a practicalapplication in bothpublic and privatesectors • Orwellianfuturecan´tbeexcluded • Twodivergingviewpoints: • Biometrics is seen as one of the most serious threats to the freedom of individuals and societies • Biometrics constitutes a potential solution to privacy • At the heart of the debate is the balancebetweenhumanrights and civilliberties and the intrusion on theserights in the name of security • The principalquestion : toensure the fullrespect of fundamentalrights!!!

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