Biometrics Privacy

The BioPrivacy Initiative is a resource for the following:

Public and private sector entities drafting privacy policies or statements

Institutions deploying biometrics to employees, customers, or citizens

Private citizens concerned with the use of biometric technology

In order to raise awareness of issues related to personal and informational privacy in biometric deployments, International Biometric Group's BioPrivacy Initiative advocates best practices for deploying biometric technology in the public and private sector, and establishes criteria for evaluating the potential privacy impact of biometric deployments and technology.

Using the BioPrivacy Initiative's three evaluative tools - the BioPrivacy Application Impact Framework, BioPrivacy Technology Risk Ratings, and BioPrivacy Best Practices - public and private sector institutions can ensure that new or existing biometric deployments are consistent with generally accepted privacy principles

2004 CIPLIT Symposium

Last october, The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT) of the DePaul University, College of Law organized the 2004 CIPLIT Symposium,

Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age

They upload the Symposium Program:

Professor Ishwar K. Sethi, Department Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Oakland University, "Biometrics: Challenges and Applications", Presentation (PPT ~ 1.5 MB)

Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada, "Biometrics and the Privacy Paradox", Presentation (PPT ~ 826 KB)


Professor Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, "Geographic Aspects of Location Tracking with RFID and GPS", Presentation (PPT ~ 54 KB)

Paul M. Schwartz

Paul Schwartz, proffesor at Brooklyn Law School, is a leading international expert on information privacy, copyright, telecommunications and information law. He is teaching Information Privacy Law this spring at Berkeley.

He joined the faculty of Brooklyn Law School in 1998, where he is currently the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law. His recent articles include “Property, Privacy, and Personal Data,” 117 Harvard Law Review 2055 (2004); “Eldred and Lochner: Copyright Term Extension and Intellectual Property as Constitutional Property,” 112 Yale Law Journal 2331 (2003) (William Treanor, co-author); and “Voting Technology and Democracy,” 75 N.Y.U. Law Review 625 (2002). His scholarship focuses on how the law has sought to regulate and otherwise shape information technology—as well as the impact of information technology on law and democracy.

More books and papers by Schartz

Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention

Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention is a project that was launched on the 10th June 2004 and all output documents are available to download.

Foresisht is a project supported by English Government Foresight produces challenging visions of the future, to ensure effective strategies now. It does this by providing a core of skills in science-based futures projects and unequalled access to leaders in government, business and science.

Cybertrust and Crime Prevention directed by Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor. The aim was to look 15 - 20 years ahead at the impact of advances in next generation information technologies. In particular it considered issues of identity and authenticity; trust in Information technologies; surveillance; and how products and systems may be developed that minimise crime opportunities. The sponsor Minister for this project was The Rt. Hon. John Denham (Home Office).

You can access all these documents about: Privacy, Trust, Security.

And the executive sumamry

Americans increasing protections of privacy, personal information

By Stephen Pounds

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, May 02, 2005 Consumers are revving up their shredders.

A new Harris Interactive survey on personal information protection for Delray Beach-based Office Depot shows Americans are going to greater lengths to protect their private data.

Two-thirds of those surveyed shred credit-card offers and their bills.

• More than one-third bring their mail to the post office rather than leaving it unattended in their mailbox.

• A quarter of them shield the ATM screen at banks.

• A quarter of them don't sign the back of their credit card so sales clerks will check their identification.

In another surprising trend, 7 percent of respondents use only cash for purchases so there's no paper trail.

"Very recently have people made the switch back to cash because of the issue of making all this credit information available. There's a lot of interest in this," spokeswoman Heather Govern said.

The survey was a national poll of 1,962 people for the giant office supply chain for last week's National Small Business Week