Richard Doyle and the Biometrica Project

Richard Doyle is a professor of Rhetoric and Science, Medicine, Technology & Cultures in the Department of English at Penn State University.

Biotelemetrica is a project about privacy and biotelemetrics.

"Biotelemetrics" names a diverse set of practices, technologies and disciplines oriented toward the non-invasive determination of human identity at a distance.

The moral is that biometrics work well only if the verifier can verify two things: one, that the biometric came from the person at the time of verification, and two, that the biometric matches the master biometric on file.
If the system can't do that, it can't work. Biometrics are unique identifiers, but they are not secrets. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch, and your iris patterns can be observed anywhere you look. (Schneier, 1999, "Biotelemetrics: Uses and Abuses")

Podcast:

Just Say Yes to The Noosphere - a talk at Stanford University Law School, May 26, 2006 at Human Enhancement Technologiesand Human Rights.