The eyes have it

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2970, 2014, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • India isn't the only developing country with a national biometrics program. There are more than 1 billion people enrolled in biometrics schemes across the developing world. Governments claim the systems are filling an "identification gap" left by a lack of official documentation, such as birth certificates, that citizens of rich countries take for granted. Privacy advocates see such systems as causing a power imbalance between governments and citizens. In 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized Argentina's SIBIOS system for "opening the door to widespread privacy violations." Here, Hodson examines the future of the world's largest biometric database