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The Role of Biometrics in the Surveillance Age: Balancing Security and Privacy

In today's surveillance age, biometric identification is increasingly utilized to verify identities through physiological and behavioral characteristics. These technologies raise significant privacy concerns, including unauthorized data collection and the potential for abuse. While biometrics can enhance security in public and private sectors, they also pose threats to individual freedoms and civil liberties. This discussion aims to explore the dual nature of biometrics: as a means of protecting security and as a potential infringement on privacy rights, highlighting the need for a balance between safety and individual freedoms.

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The Role of Biometrics in the Surveillance Age: Balancing Security and Privacy

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  1. The Role of Biometrics in the SurveillanceAge?

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  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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