{"id":4598,"date":"2016-01-26T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T04:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:00:26","slug":"will-biometric-authentication-be-creepy-or-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/will-biometric-authentication-be-creepy-or-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Will biometric authentication be creepy or cool?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From fingerprints to iris scans, biometric identification is becoming part of everyday life. As we move to even more complex behavioural and biological biometrics (a password pill or brain wave and gait analysis for example) there are potential benefits and risks which need to be considered and discussed, says Tom Keenan, author of a new report for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Keenan presents a series of biometrics \u201chidden risks\u201d and suggests the social and legal implications of biometrics should be thoroughly examined before they enter the mainstream, something that has been \u201ca major shortcoming in technology introduction\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgai.ca\/replacing_something_bad_with_something_worse?utm_campaign=keenan_report&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=cdfai\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by the\u00a0Canadian Global Affairs Institute\u00a0on <strong>January 21<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas P. Keenan, Research Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and University of Calgary, Alberta<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fingerprints to iris scans, biometric identification is becoming part of everyday life. As we move to even more complex behavioural and biological biometrics (a password pill or brain wave and gait analysis for example) there are potential benefits and risks which need to be considered and discussed, says Tom Keenan, author of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2499,2498,2497,1011],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biometrics","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}