TY - JOUR
AU1 - Alterman, Anton
AB - Ethics and Information Technology 5: 139–150, 2003. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. “A piece of yourself”: Ethical issues in biometric identification Anton Alterman Baruch College, C.U.N.Y., Department of Philosophy, 1 Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY 10010-5585, USA E-mail: tonyalt@prodigy.net (home); altermana@hra.nyc.gov (office) I. “Biometric identification” is a general term for vendors would need such standards to provide cross- technologies that permit matches between a “live” recognition of fingerprints for ATM transactions. digital image of a part of the body and a previously Compared to a visual comparison of signatures recorded image of the same part, usually indexed to or photo ID’s, biometric identification is less fallible personal or financial information. Biometric identi- and potentially much faster. This has prompted the fiers include digital fingerprints, retinal scans, hand use of biometrics for noncriminal governmental and geometry, facial characteristics, and vocal patterns. commercial applications. James L. Wayman, Director Biometric scanning systems typically do not record of Biometrics Test Center at San Jose State Univer- the entire imprint of a physical feature but only that sity, mentions a number of such applications that portion, or “template”, that should be time-invariant were live as of May 1998, including 
TI - ``A piece of yourself'': Ethical issues in biometric identification
JF - Ethics and Information Technology
DO - 10.1023/B:ETIN.0000006918.22060.1f
DA - 2004-10-06
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/a-piece-of-yourself-ethical-issues-in-biometric-identification-DiPIktbjZ7
SP - 139
EP - 150
VL - 5
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -