Biometric is the Mark - Government is the beast

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Biometric is the Mark - Government is the Beast

Michael (Micha) Shafir

The fact that elements of that satanic mark scheme are easy to get realized, causes us totake it seriously. The following discussion provides a few different viewpoints in regardsto the privacy and dignity violations area, which is the idea of potential threats or risks.

We have built our database to be about 90 million fingerprints, and it's now time for

us to transition from the two to the 10 fingers As the database grows insize we need more information (Robert A. Mocny, Director, US-VISIT Program,Department of Homeland Security)

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As the database grows in size we need more information is known as TheBiometrics Collection Proximity Paradox

In the near future, the government shall take all measures to force us to take our shoes

off and deliver our toesprint

Biometric technologies have extremely serious implications for human rights in general,

and privacy or dignity in particular. The term Biometric is a Sterilized expression for

Human Body/Organ Specimens mark. Preserving unique human body specimens in anational bodys dataset by governments is an explicit violation of human dignity and

privacy. Some fundamental part of human dignity requires privacy. Privacy is part of theclaim to personal autonomy. It supports the various freedoms that democratic countriesvalue.

The Case against Biometrics Collections

The current Biometric authentication methods present a serious threat in a manner thatmany people regard it as demeaning. The Biometric scheme represents the kind of

closed-minded society that the Soviet Union created, and which the free world decried.

According the basic human dignity law: There shall be no violation of the life, body or

dignity of any person as such: Human Dignity transcends any social order as the basis

for rights and is neither granted by society nor can it be legitimately violated by society.

As free individuals, living in a free country, we have the right to control our own body

identifiers and our own physical characteristics. "We are not animals, we are human

beings - ourbody and its lineaments are NOT a Blob of Tissue Biometric is referringto Vital body organs measurement, derived from the Greek words Bio (life) and Metric

(to measure). From a democratic and legal point of view, an individual has the right to


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manage his own bodily identifiers (body, dignity, markers, and privacy - Intrinsic cut offcharacteristics) as the conceptual basis for human rights.

The biometric matters that touch upon the limits of what is and isn't "human body is not

relevant. As long official authorities are forcing a cut down, of unique human body

specimens or other body marks from their own citizens moreover are preserving thoseautonomous bodily identifiers in a National Human Organs Datasets for roundup, or

future snoop, surveillance or comparisons, which can consider compulsory as a violation

of human rights and privacy. Biometric technologies do not just involve collection ofinformation about the person, but rather information of the person, intrinsic to them.

Biometrics should enhance rather than conflict with individual privacy and dignity. As

stated by the philosopherImmanuel Kant (1724-1804): Human beings should never betreated as merely means to an end - Namely, Human beings must not be sacrificed

to fulfill other purposes.

Privacy is a fundamental human right upheld under Article 12 of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, as well as Article 17 of the UN International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights and inasmuch applies to all people, regardless of nationality,immigration status, age, or sex. While providing the foundation for many normative

claims, one direct normative implication of human dignity is that every human being

should be acknowledged as an inherently valuable member of the human community and

as a unique expression of life, with an integrated bodily and spiritual nature.

Privacy laws and policy were derived from a code of fair information practices developed

in 1973 by the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. This Code is anorganized set of values and standards about personal information defining the rights of

record subjects and the responsibilities of record keepers. The Code highlights principles

of fair information practices:1. There must be no secret personal data record-keeping system.

2. There must be a way for individuals to discover what personal information is

recorded about them and how it is used.3. There must be a way for individuals to prevent personal information obtained for

one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without their

consent.

4. There must be a way for individuals to correct or amend information aboutthemselves.

What remains to be determined is the following:1. Can the biometric information be collected, stored, or retrieved?

2. Can the biometric information collected be used both for criminal and non-

criminal searches and suspicionless searches?3. Can the system give the individual full control over his abandoned personal

intrinsic information?


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The following fact remains: There are no legal restrictions on biometrically identifying

information, or biometric authentication systems.However: there are severe restrictions on collecting, creating, maintaining, using, ordisseminating records of identifiable personal data. One immediate conclusion that we

should draw is that biometrics authentication must be traceless. Just as each type of

biometric deployment can have a different impact on privacy, each biometric technologybears a different relation to privacy (International Biometric Group, LLC., 2003). Some

technologies have almost no privacy impact, and could scarcely be used in any privacy-

invasive fashion (e.g. Traceless).Other technologies are much more likely to be associated with privacy-invasive usage,

either due to their core operation or due to extrinsic factors. As with many other

ideas/concepts, viewpoints surrounding this issue or concept vary.

People see different threats or risks and at different levels or degrees of severity. Thereare in fact mixed views among the various interest groups about whether the use of

biometrics is privacy enhancing or privacy invasive. It is an important concept though to

realize that various types of biometric technologies can have various types of

influence/impact on privacy.

The monitoring of people's movements and actions through the use of biometrics

increases the transparency of individuals' behavior to organizations and

governments.

Until very recent times, the vast majority of actions and transactions undertaken bypeople were anonymous, or were identified only to the extent that an observer saw them

and might remember them, but no records of the event were kept.

Corporations and government agencies have been working very hard to deny people

the ability to keep their transactions anonymous.

As a result of new forms of information technology, the cost of data capture has

plummeted, and huge numbers of transactions are now recorded which would have been

uneconomic to record in the past. These records carry enough information to identify whothe person was who conducted them, and systems are designed so as to readily associate

the data with that person.

Biometric technologies create new capabilities for the association of identity withtransactions that have never been recorded before, such as passing through a door within

a building, across an intersection, or into a public place or an entertainment facility. They

provide a powerful weapon to corporations and governments, whereby yet more of theremnant anonymity of human action can be stripped away.

Author: Michael (Micha) Shafir - CTO, seasoned entrepreneur, Inventor, researcher,scientist (RadWare, MagniFire, PonsEye, Pons - Technology GreenHouse, CrossID,Innovations' Center)


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