...[W]hile biometrics are indeed an important tool and will be part of future security solutions, we cannot afford "biometric creep", a situation in which we gradually cede our privacy. Now is the time to have the debate to determine what an acceptable biometric future will look like.The article linked above, by a thoughtful former federal police officer, is worth reading in its entirety.
We offered a framework for this debate in the early days of this blog. The tone of the series of posts is highly academic but I don't think they suffer because of it.
The posts titles are:
Debating biometrics [Introduction]
Part I: The Right to Privacy
Part II: The Nature of Consent
Part III: Transparency
Part IV: A Framework for the Discussion of Privacy Issues
Part V: Filling in the framework; Absolute advocacy dos and don'ts
Part VI: Filling in the framework, subjectivity and interpretation
