Bio-metric Identification

Bio-metric Identification-

Bio-metrics is the identification or verification of someone's identity on the basis of physiological or behavioral characteristics. Bio-metric technologies provide a reliable method of access control and personal identification for governments and organizations. However, bio-metrics has also raised privacy concerns. Widespread use of bio-metrics would have the undesirable effect of eliminating anonymity and pseudonymous in most daily transactions, because people would leave unique traces everywhere they go. Moreover, the bio-metric monitoring of movements and actions gives the monitoring organization insight into a person’s behaviors which may be used against that person’s interests. In addition, many people find bio metrics distasteful, because it involves the recording of unique and intimate aspects of (rather than about) a person, and because bio-metric identification procedures are sometimes invasive of bodily privacy. The challenge for bio metrics is therefore to develop techniques and policies that are optimally protective of personal privacy.