Biometric systems have rapidly become aneveryday feature of our lives. Facial recognition inpublic spaces, fingerprint scanning in phones andentry systems, mood recognition from voiceanalysis in customer service - biometric systemsare so common, they are almost taken forgranted. Cases in point are the recent attemptedapplications of facial recognition in
UK SchoolCafeterias
and by the
IRS trying facial recognition
for account access to “simplify” and “facilitateefficient” engagement. But biometric systems arefar from innocuous, and their prevalenceshouldn’t mask the danger they pose. In fact,ForHumanity believes, the treatment of BiometricData is insufficiently governed, everywhere in theworld, in all systems, and in all legal jurisdictions.This includes jurisdictions with seemingly robustdata protection laws, such as the UK and EU withGDPR. This law, like many other Biometric Datalaws, misrepresents the vital importance and, thetrue intrinsic nature of Biometric Data.
