Privacy Law: Biometrics and privacy

✍ Scribed by Jan Grijpink

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(01)00304-1

✦ Synopsis

Biometrics offers many alternatives for protecting our privacy and preventing us from falling victim to crime. Biometrics can even serve as a solid basis for safe anonymous and semi-anonymous legal transactions. In this article Jan Grijpink clarifies which concepts and practical applications this relates to. A number of practical basic rules are also given as a guide to proceeding in a legally acceptable manner when applying biometrics.