Biometric Recognition: Security and Privacy Concerns
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PUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 1540-7993/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY 33 I s Alice authorized to enter this facility? Is Bob entitled to access this Web site or privileged information? Are we administering our service exclusively to the enrolled users? Does Charlie have a criminal record? Every day, a variety of organizations pose questions such as these about personal recognition. One emerging technology that is becoming more widespread in such organizations is biometrics—automatic personal recognition based on physiological or behavioral characteristics.1 The term comes from the Greek words bios (life) and metrikos (measure). To make a personal recognition, biometrics relies on who you are or what you do—as opposed to what you know (such as a password) or what you have (such as an ID card). Biometrics has several advantages compared with traditional recognition. In some applications, it can either replace or supplement existing technologies; in others, it is the only viable approach to personal recognition. With the increasing infrastructure for reliable automatic personal recognition and for associating an identity with other personal behavior, concern is naturally growing over whether this information might be abused to violate individuals’ rights to anonymity. We argue here, however, that the accountable, responsible use of biometric systems can in fact protect individual privacy.
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