BioPrivacy Risk Ratings

Just as each type of biometric deployment can have a different impact on privacy, each biometric technology bears a different relation to privacy. Some technologies have almost no privacy impact, and could scarcely be used in any privacy-invasive fashion. Other technologies are much more likely to be associated with privacy-invasive usage, either due to their core operation or due to extrinsic factors.

BioPrivacy Technology Risk Ratings assesses the privacy risks of leading biometric technologies in four key areas:

• Verification/identification. Technologies that are most capable of robust identification are rated higher; technologies that are only capable of verification are rated lower.

• Overt/covert. Technologies that are capable of operating without user knowledge or consent are rated higher; technologies that only operate with user consent are rated lower.

 

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One of the consulting services that International Biometric Group (IBG) offers, which often goes hand-in-hand with a Feasibility Study, is a Privacy Impact Assessment.

For organizations not yet prepared to execute a full Privacy Impact Assessment of a biometric deployment or technology, IBG has created a report, "Biometrics and Privacy: Assessing Deployment and Technology Risks," which provides a framework for understanding privacy issues in biometric technologies.