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March 17, 2010 By Russell Nichols
Governments that are looking to protect health benefit records and safeguard citizens from identity thieves might want to check out their favorite spy movies for a clue about what help is coming.
Technology is on the rise that scans palm prints, eyes and voices to allow access into rooms or data and to verify identities. Based on biometrics, these systems recognize individuals by analyzing unique characteristics of a person's body or behavior.
But with recent advances in the technology, new biometrics systems are coming onto the scene, such as the full-body scanners that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced will be landing at 11 U.S. airports by summer 2010. And as more scanning systems roll out, and through which citizens are linked to databases, privacy advocates stress the risks of having personal information in the open.
"We don't want to the see the same problems we've seen with other identification systems," said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research group in Washington, D.C. "Before people jump in the deep end of the pool, they need to really consider the short-term and long-term consequences. Any information that's collected has got to be protected."
But that's not stopping Evan Smith, CEO for Eye Controls, an iris recognition biometrics company based in Virginia. Since launching in 2007, he said, his company has implemented its SafeMatch system at six health clinics and a construction site, and has been in talks with various government agencies.
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yet again, here is another technology that companies are trying to sell, without proper security and privacy safeguards. When questions are raised about security and/or privacy, the canned answer is that the data is "secure" and even if someone got to it, it's not useable outside of the system. They are not thinking about the insiders who could be compromised or become disgruntled, or of how the data could be altered so the actual individual has troubel because the scan doesn't match what is on file.
yet again, here is another technology that companies are trying to sell, without proper security and privacy safeguards. When questions are raised about security and/or privacy, the canned answer is that the data is "secure" and even if someone got to it, it's not useable outside of the system. They are not thinking about the insiders who could be compromised or become disgruntled, or of how the data could be altered so the actual individual has troubel because the scan doesn't match what is on file.
yet again, here is another technology that companies are trying to sell, without proper security and privacy safeguards. When questions are raised about security and/or privacy, the canned answer is that the data is "secure" and even if someone got to it, it's not useable outside of the system. They are not thinking about the insiders who could be compromised or become disgruntled, or of how the data could be altered so the actual individual has troubel because the scan doesn't match what is on file.
Whether people like it or not, technology is improving and biometrics are going to be employed almost everywhere. Like the article said, these systems will be protecting privacy more than any form of identification being used today. It's much easier to fake a plastic or paper ID than it is to breach a secure server. The most trusted people must be put in place to maintain these systems just like a secure credit information server such as VeriSign. Worrying about being protected less is simply irrational. If you want to read a good article take a look at bigskybiometrics.wordpress.com
Whether people like it or not, technology is improving and biometrics are going to be employed almost everywhere. Like the article said, these systems will be protecting privacy more than any form of identification being used today. It's much easier to fake a plastic or paper ID than it is to breach a secure server. The most trusted people must be put in place to maintain these systems just like a secure credit information server such as VeriSign. Worrying about being protected less is simply irrational. If you want to read a good article take a look at bigskybiometrics.wordpress.com
Whether people like it or not, technology is improving and biometrics are going to be employed almost everywhere. Like the article said, these systems will be protecting privacy more than any form of identification being used today. It's much easier to fake a plastic or paper ID than it is to breach a secure server. The most trusted people must be put in place to maintain these systems just like a secure credit information server such as VeriSign. Worrying about being protected less is simply irrational. If you want to read a good article take a look at bigskybiometrics.wordpress.com
Am I missing something or isn't this 2011? Why would you headline a story that was written a year ago? Surely, there is something interesting going on somewhere that is current??