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Who owns your biometric?

The use of biometrics continues to grow at an amazing rate. Yesterday, the BBC ran a story "Under the thumb?" in which it explained that to rent a car at Stansted airport now, you must give your fingerprint. The article then references the growth of biometrics for use in purchasing groceries (3 million in the US are registered).

What laws are in place to protect a digital piece of you? The answer is there isn't any that speaks to the storage security for biometrics, length of archival, your permission to give out this information nor legal recourse for when it's stolen.

While the use of biometrics is very tempting to replace passwords as the primary authentication identification mechanism in the future, at what price does it come? Ease of use does not equal lack of protection of the identity nor loss of the citizen's privacy.

Guy
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guy.huntington@authenticationworld.com

Posted by Guy Huntington on November 14, 2006 3:40 PM |

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