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Biometrics are individual unique so much so that theyve always served as a Gold Standard for i did with really high levels of accuracy and Strong Security fingerprints and d. N. A. Databases have been the mainstay for Police Investigators for decades and across many parts of the world people who are literally used some prints in place of written signature. Has been researching the growing use of biometrics theres also your face now which is being recorded so thats just your facial point thats called facial Recognition Technology your voice is biometric data but theres also something called gait analysis which is how you walk so those are ways that they can identify you and another way behavioral biometrics that might be your online behavior so how you use your mouth where you click on things as you go through the internet but even how regular they are posting on facebook theres a lot that you can can get just from people ordinary lives and thats why its so important to have this debate and the fighting if we all are giving our consent about whether or not we want such technology being used and if so under what circumstances and what regulatory checks. The world is on a mission a mission to give everybody a legal identity by 2030 that was a target set by the United Nations as part of that Sustainable Development Goals Campaign the key segment of the population that the un is focusing on is the more than 1000000000 people who currently have no way to prove their identity. The un verified include millions of refugees traffic children homeless and other people who never get a chance to establish documents and create a digital footprint that so essential for modern life. Here exaggerate can be United Nations World Food Program is using Biometric Technology iris scans to provide aid to the camps 75000. 00 syrian residence refugees can shop for their groceries with the blink of an eye no need for bank card or registration papers this estate is quite aptly named ip when a shopper has their iris scanned the World Food Program system verifies the persons identity against a biometric database held by the u. N. High commission for refugees the u. N. H. C. R. Then it checks the account balance confirms the purchase and prints and i pay receipt all of this happens in seconds and according to the World Food Program this not only makes transactions quicker but more secure here in jordan we use biometrics. Reason 1. 100 percent on the identity of the person chasing and using the assistance that we provide and so. The promise of the beneficiaries by not using the card by not using it in camps which is an environment where beneficially can get a market. Going with their on. Its easier than going with a car. Yeah look i. Dont but. Maybe. They are. Watching the iris unable shopping process is both fascinating and a bit and. This is a super high tech system thats been rolled out in what you could call a low writes in part. People here are under the protection of the United Nations and have moved rights than they would have in the walls or ends of the country safe literally such as syria however they also have little choice when it comes to giving up their biometrics. Programs taking somebodys biometric data from them is about the most personal data that you could take these are not people who necessarily are in a position to ask for legal representation to have this explained to them 2nd if they dont want it what is the alternative that they can exercise instead are they using behavioral psychology as something called nudge the area to make it where its just easier to hand over your data and then you get your food and your clothes and your money faster because that would be unethical were testing out again extremely experimental really Invasive Technology on people who potentially have some of the rights and protections of anyone with a middle class person living in france or germany or the United States the United Kingdom or sweden can fence to use their iras to pay for things or to transact probably not its easy to see the immense potential of the i track a disk and smooth out payments and reduce the. Of corruption and fraud the World Food Program says the benefits go even further they are able to monitor Shopping Habits and traditional take and theres a possibility in the future that the Credit Histories of the refugees could help them open Bank Accounts get lines they also think theyve got the security bit covered. So the reprieve regulates the management of theyve got a juice through it that i should even remember were going to see are so crude that agreement we are able to access the data Sensitive Data which again does not include names just the case id phone number and location so we are confident that that date up being a cryptic is. What public the reason why we are doing. That i would only buy the privacy and in fact assessment on the project to get on t. V. That if there are new threads. In the world we are able to tackle them and address them properly before they come to us. U. N. H. C. R. Remain fully committed to their Biometrics Registration Program so much so that theyre rapidly expanding it with the aim of be active in 75 countries by 2020 there remains lots of problematic questions that are yet to be fully answered such as is the tech foolproof who has access and how can anyone plan for the unforeseen issues to come these are the kinds of questions that have made other aid organizations pause before jumping on board with Biometric Technology in 2015 oxfam voluntarily imposed a moratorium on its use of biometrics in its work it stated given the number of unknowns around most effective operation and governance models and risks of this incredibly Sensitive Data falling into the wrong hands we felt it was best not to become an early adopter. One field in which biometrics has long been is security and surveillance and facial recognition is one of the most popular right now in china theres been an exponential increase in the use of facial tracking and Artificial Intelligence to monitor citizens the United States also currently operates one of the largest facial Recognition Systems in the world with a database of 117000000 americans with photos typically drawn from drivers licenses and in the u. K. Police forces have been trialing life issue recognition since 2016 a public spaces such as Shopping Centers football matches protests music events and crowded city spots so this green band thats behind me here in Central London is part of the facial Recognition Technology trial thats being run by the metropolitan police and what its doing is its basically scanning peoples faces when they walk past and then comparing that to a database that has want to defend this all suspects on the met police say facial recognition could enable them to more easily protect people. Prevent offenses and bring offenders to justice however privacy groups such as big brother watch say the technology is authoritarian and lawless the groups legal and policy officer or a ferris even goes so far as to say that facial recognition is possibly the most dangerous surveillance mechanism thats ever been invented this facial Recognition Technology can capture up to 300 cases a seconds which could be around 18000 faces in a minute its a vast vast number of people whom the police can identify check against Police Databases for that police or immigration so what were seeing is police i dont being able to identify people in seconds but put so much power in the hands of the state and the police which i think is fundamentally wrong its not democratically accountable because theres no legal basis for this so this is an intense intrusive and all thora terror and Surveillance Technology while advocates for facial recognition would debate some of course assertions one thing is undeniable the technology currently being used by the u. K. Police is dangerously inaccurate latest figures show that 96 percent of the met police is socalled matches when misidentifications and this Research Showing that many facial recognition algorithms will disproportionately misidentify darker skin tones and when. The cause is a new mirrors and they vary ranging from poor quality c. C. T. V. Images to the fact that the algorithms are often trained so to speak using faces at a mostly white and male 5th technology and looks like a really nice quick fix to the fact that we have not got as much money to pay for human intelligence operations so it sounds great in theory a problem if it doesnt work very well on people who are not white men which is quite a lot of the population on the planet being arrested wrongfully means that you get put into predictive policing algorithms for the more often youre having contact. Law enforcement the more you are at risk of being stopped again even erroneous lee and also people in your network because they build the network out of number just about you proponents of facial recognition in the u. K. Will argue that issues with accuracy can be fixed they arent wrong technology can always be improved on whats a bigger concern is that currently there are no laws governing the use of facial technology in the country whether its the state using it or even private companies i think whats really troubling at the moment is the technology is being rolled out without legislation and empowered regulators this is not technology to have a very good track record of being countable so i can find out who is using it under what circumstances what weve done with the data where that stored whats the track record of cybersecurity on keeping that data protected all of the things we have no idea has just been rolled out when people feel that theyre being observed all the time that has a really Chilling Effect the things like your right to protest your right to go to a Job Interview to hang out with some friends to go to church these are things that perhaps the state doesnt have a right to keep an eye on the met police have defended the trials saying they quote and that members of the public are informed through post isnt leaflets but if the trial i was at wouldnt be the word id use there were literally hundreds of people rushing through the space and the chances of seeing the tiny signs reading the leaflets or even understanding what the unmarked van was being useful when minimal i stopped a few people to see what they thought of the trial. Not the level of invasion of privacy but then we live in not wild in my opinion i think its a good thing to have facial recognition because i as long as youre not doing anything bad and it also helps the police track people down to be honest there are technologies going at the moment this will be the norm all around the world so i think we just need to get used to it if youve done nothing wrong theres no issue i think if you really believe that the state. Never done anything wrong to its citizens then you have nothing to fear from this technology but as we know no state has a perfect track record and we should not be putting so much power into the hands of the state and the police take a look around you in the world the technology is already being used by certain countries all you have to do is pick up a newspaper and see people who are being incarcerated in concentration camps in china right now biometrics data is part of that thats how theyre monitoring those people and tracking them and anyone who comes into contact with them right so theres your proof of concept of what could be done now its really easy to go that would never happen here but your government can always change right so history is full of examples but even in the old democracy if in times of war in times of economic difficulty people get voted into power who change so you have to think about how a 5th time is being built and what it could be used for years down the road when theres a very different political flavor. The u. K. Collects biometrics from another key segment of the population one that many wouldnt even consider children if youre aware that schools have been recording the biometrics of children for the past 20 years it is estimated that since 1909 approximately 70 to 80 percent of children in the u. K. Have interacted with some sort of biometric device in School Picking is a Parent Campaign if it childrens rights and creator of the biometrics in school. I think companies are putting the tech into a School Setting because you put a compliant population School Children its all question is that being surveilled little bit more general population to them because they dont know any better the concern i have with biometrics in schools is that the way back in 1999 and throughout the whole of the next decade since 2000 is that we as an Adult Population when using biometrics a toll not even on phones and suddenly we had children as young as 3 and 4 using their fingerprint to get. An out of School Systems the growth of affordable Biometric Technology means that fingerprints iris scans facial recognition and infrared palm scanning have been used to speed up access to canteens libraries registrations payments and luckys a big selling point of course has been security by metric unable to access is seen as a foolproof way of keeping School Building safe however a big concern is how robust the systems are who has access to the biometric data is there a process for deletion and what happens if the system is compromised i also sent the pup to the cation a few years ago freedom of information request about are they checked the software or their tech to christian standards is that adhering to sort of International Standards of the hardware is it secure nobody can answer no no weve never text system no with that method and Headlines National standards its just seems to have sort of been going under the carpet and they really is aware of you know whats in schools whats being sold to schools who are thugs us to it and whether or not theres been any biometric data breaches for entire generations of british schoolchildren questions of consent around their biometrics have been bypassed to a great extent it was only in 2012 that a law was enacted putting in place processes for consent to be given or withheld the overall effect of biometrics in schools however is that the sharing in use of very personal data and the implications of surveillance of the normalised of millions of british children whove been taught to understand that its no big deal to hand over your body data in order to get a service or a product they dont understand how it can be abused necessarily theres a reason that they should understand it because nobodys helping them to understand it we havent had public discussion about it the test but thats not it isnt necessarily the tag because weve got the tech already thinks that. And if you go into schools and you desensitize a normalize the Surveillance Technology. The small city is that already you know pretty objecting to it so i think its a good argument sort of for all to be a little bit. Wary of the word smart especially when its sort of its not cities or small notorious because its a sense the assailants. It would be one thing if extensive biometric systems would be just used by governments or state funded organizations like the un it would make the lack of accountability and accuracy or outdated security protocols any easier to live with but at least across many countries governments can be questioned pressured to give answers of some. The reality however is that biometrics are increasingly being used by private companies Shopping Mall recruitment agencies online d. N. A. And Ancestry Services and even private Security Companies all of them a taking and using our by metrics and finding out how the technologies being used what daughter is being stored and with whom its being shed not just today but also in the future involves a lot of probing because these transparent systems even some of them are seemingly benign. Can pose a threat to people for instance are really interested in finding out about their Family History so theyre handing over their d. N. A. To companies like. A combination of the Worlds Largest d. N. A. And family tree databases who can show you a more precise picture of your origins. Have you were right about your d. N. A. With a private company than you do with Law Enforcement. Right there. In your head for just a moment and the implications through and from country of your d. N. A. Could be used to reveal for instance predispositions to Health Problems that you might have and in countries where there isnt National Health insurance and you have to pay to be insured. And you would never kn