Biometrics Issues

At present, many applications of biometric technologies exist both in the private and public sector. Some of these are considered large-scale, for example the FBI fingerprint database in the US or the Malaysian multi purpose smart card. But so far no application comes close in scale to the proposed scheme for passports and visas. The widespread implementation of biometric applications in the public sector and their potential proliferation in the private sector will pose a series of challenges which policy-makers need to address. In the next sections we will discuss the social, economic, legal and technological implications of biometric technologies and we will make a short but important analysis of the medical implications. In each of these analyses, the issues of security, privacy, interoperability with other systems and costs are examined.

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