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Andrew Auty
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Of course the issues of human rights are important ones and need to be clearly resolved.
An issue which seldom gets an airing is the problem of false negatives.
If you have a right to access systems, and possibly need to access them for the safety of others, then a false negative could have a detrimental effect. Where the consequences of false negatives are serious, e.g. medical equipment, banking, train drivers etc, systems need to have the ability to accept an override command or some other mechanism for forcing acceptance. In which case, what is the real of value biometrics? Risk assessment ought to be employed to assess whether the hoped-for efficiency gains offset the potential liabilities including those arising from false negatives, loss of control over override commands and of course human rights based challenges.
Liability insurance might be the simplest answer.
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