Ethics and Policy of Biometrics

1. Front Matter

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2. Privacy Protection and Challenges

   1. Challenges Posed by Biometric Technology on Data Privacy Protection and the Way Forward

      • Roderick B. Woo

      Pages 1-6

   2. The Dangers of Electronic Traces: Data Protection Challenges Presented by New Information Communication Technologies

      • Nataša Pirc Musar, Jelena Burnik

      Pages 7-13

   3. Privacy and Biometrics for Authentication Purposes: A Discussion of Untraceable Biometrics and Biometric Encryption

      • Ann Cavoukian, Max Snijder, Alex Stoianov, Michelle Chibba

      Pages 14-22

   4. From the Economics to the Behavioral Economics of Privacy: A Note

      • Alessandro Acquisti

      Pages 23-26

3. Legal Challenges

   1. Legislative and Ethical Questions regarding DNA and Other Forensic "Biometric" Databases

      • Elazar (Azi) Zadok

      Pages 27-39

   2. Are We Protected? The Adequacy of Existing Legal Frameworks for Protecting Privacy in the Biometric Age

      • Tim Parker

      Pages 40-46

   3. Have a Safe Trip Global Mobility and Machine Readable Travel Documents: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean

      • Mia Harbitz, Dana King

      Pages 47-54

4. Engineering and Social Challenges

   1. On Analysis of Rural and Urban Indian Fingerprint Images

      • C. Puri, K. Narang, A. Tiwari, M. Vatsa, R. Singh

      Pages 55-61

   2. Privacy Protection in High Security Biometrics Applications

      • Nalini K. Ratha

      Pages 62-69

   3. Face Recognition and Plastic Surgery: Social, Ethical and Engineering Challenges

      • H. S. Bhatt, S. Bharadwaj, R. Singh, M. Vatsa

      Pages 70-75

   4. Human Face Analysis: From Identity to Emotion and Intention Recognition

      • Massimo Tistarelli, Enrico Grosso

      Pages 76-88

   5. Creating Safe and Trusted Social Networks with Biometric User Authentication

      • Ho B. Chang, Klaus G. Schroeter

      Pages 89-95

5. Ethical and Medical Concerns

   1. Ethical Values for E-Society: Information, Security and Privacy

      • Stephen Mak

      Pages 96-101

   2. Ethical Issues in Governing Biometric Technologies

      • Margit Sutrop

      Pages 102-114

   3. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Determine the Social Impacts of Biotechnology

      • Pei-Fen Chang

      Pages 115-120

   4. Medical Safety Issues Concerning the Use of Incoherent Infrared Light in Biometrics

      • Nikolaos Kourkoumelis, Margaret Tzaphlidou

      Pages 121-126

6. Policy Issues and Deployments in Asia

   1. The Status Quo and Ethical Governance in Biometric in Mainland China

      • Xiaomei Zhai, Qiu Renzong

      Pages 127-137

   2. Building an Ecosystem for Cyber Security and Data Protection in India

      • Vinayak Godse

      Pages 138-145

7. Challenges in Large Scale Biometrics Identification

   1. The Unique Identification Number Project: Challenges and Recommendations

      • Haricharan Rengamani, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Rajarshi Chakraborty, H. Raghav Rao

      Pages 146-153

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies in applications ranging from law enforcement and immigration control to online security. The benefits of biometrics technologies are apparent as they become important technologies for information security of governments, business enterprises, and individuals. At the same time, however, the use of biometrics has raised concerns as to issues of ethics, privacy, and the policy implications of its wi- spread use. The large-scale deployment of biometrics technologies in e-governance, e-security, and e-commerce has required that we launch an international dialogue on these issues, a dialogue that must involve key stakeholders and that must consider the legal, poli- cal, philosophical and cultural aspects of the deployment of biometrics technologies. The Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and Inter- tional Data Sharing was highly successful in facilitating suchinteraction among - searchers, policymakers, consumers, and privacy groups. This conference was supported and funded as part of the RISE project in its ongoing effort to develop wide consensus and policy recommendations on ethical, medical, legal, social, cultural, and political concerns in the usage of biometrics and data security technologies. The - tential concerns over the deployment of biometrics systems can be jointly addressed by developing smart biometrics technologies and by developing policies for the - ployment of biometrics technologies that clearly demarcate conflicts of interest - tween stakeholders.

• authentication
• biometric encryption
• biometry
• encryption
• ethics
• identity
• privacy
• security
• trust
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Biometrics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

  Ajay Kumar

• Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  David Zhang

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