I personally feel that the use of biometrics for identification and authentication is way ahead of laws gauranteeing an individual's privacy. For example, the US Department of Defense was quoted in a story, "DOD Makes Red-Teaming a High Priority" November 3 in Military.com.
The story outlines the importance of biometrics to the US Military. The story says "“You can envision a time where you can collect an image at a distance, put it in a database and correlate it with other sets of information” to uniquely identify an individual, he said.
To Young, the increased use of biometrics is a reflection of 21st-century threats.
“As the war on terrorism is more about individuals than nation-states, there’s a desire to have unique technologies to be able to . . . identify an individual [and] follow [his] movements, if you need to,” he said.
A related priority is the development of technologies to tag, track and locate suspected terrorists, Young told ITP. “There [are] a lot of technology opportunities out there to look at very small devices or very unique aspects of individuals” that could help warfighters keep up with their movements, he added."
My concern are the laws pertaining to this usage and the approval required to breach the laws.
Guy
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