Biometrics
Biometrics is a technology that can be defined as measurable physiological and / or behavioral characteristics, which can be utilized to verify the identity of an individual. Techniques used by this technology include: fingerprinting, retinal and iris scanning, hand geometry, voice patterns, and facial recognition. These techniques were initially used in high security systems, however their use is extending into a much broader range of applications. Such applications include physical or logical access control, retail point of sale or banking transactions, and use in automated border control is being looked at. With this new development many social and ethical questions arise. Primarily dealing with the individual rights of people. This paper will focus on presenting the technology used in biometrics. I will begin by giving a brief background on the development of this technology, I will then move to explain the techniques and methodologies used for verification. I will give examples of applications being developed and talk about their ethical impact in society. Lastly I will touch on the future of the technology and provide my thoughts on the common good of the applications.
Biometric Background
Most people tend to think of biometrics as a sci-fi futuristic technology that was developed in the late twentieth century computer age. But to everyone's surprise, the basic principles of biometric verification were understood and practiced thousands of years ago. Individuals were identified via distinct features such as scars, eye color, complexion, height and so on. Later in the nineteenth century, a peak interest in the area of criminal investigation prompted the development of fingerprinting as the methodology a...
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...cal and intuitive in use. We are beginning to see the integration of biometric capture devices into computer keyboards. We can expect to see them incorporated into notebook computers and PDA's as time moves on, making their presence almost common place among a wide range of digital computing devices. There is little doubt that few people who use digital devices will not come across biometrics in some form or other over the coming years. Who knows, there might also be potential to use existing multimedia components such as camera and microphone devices for biometric capture purposes where applicable. There are enough devices and varying methodologies to make it reasonable to deploy biometric authentication technology across the globe. However, all the social and ethical concerns should be understood in the careful planning and program management of this technology.
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Biometrics is, “the automated use of physiological or behavioral characteristics to determine or verify identity (biometricgroup.com, 2014).”16 The purpose of the paper is to provide information about different forms of Biometrics. With the ever increasing threat of terrorism at home and abroad, biometrics is emerging as a way to increase security across the world. It is important to point out current issues dealing with Biometrics and how they relate to people that may one day have to use them.
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In this two days, the using of the Biometrics have been increased to a high level of using it around the world, so it has been too widespread, a lot of the banks, malls, computing companies and etc… using it in their security systems, and they use it in an international ways of using, perhaps they have been learned to using it in a different ways, but also they have been a proficient users of it, they can access their information but in a security way that is Biometrics, so for example there is a bank in a country that have been opened or created by a government since few days, so the manager of this bank want to create a security system for the bank, that the costumers feel like secure when they try to start their working life there, so before everything and before the launching of the bank, they will start to discuss a very long discussion with a known company that have a good impression of the experiences about the security things in the country, so first of all the company will have a contract with the manager of the bank talking about every things of the system such as, public acceptance, costs, reliability, logistics and design, so they will talk about these thing and then will create the contract, and also they will signature about the contract, this is for that if any part of the contract the manager and the compny have been retreat about the contract will pay a money or a pay a mulct for the retreat, but this happens a few with the contracts about this kind of discussions, then after that the company will start to create the security system of the bank step by step till they will finish working on it, so the purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader on the contract that have been created between the bank and the co...
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