Biometric Institute Released 7 Ethical Principles for Biometrics
Recently Biometric Institute has released 7 Ethical Principles of Biometrics at its annual U.S conference in Washington, D.C. These principles aim to address the lagging legislation and regulatory gaps and ensure ethical industry behavior.
The biometric institute was founded in 2001. From then till now, they have been working to establish thought leadership and guidance for the responsible use of biometric technology. In the conference, they have proposed 7 ethical principles to guide industry responsible behavior. These ethics are:
Ethical Behavior:
Ethical behavior means averting moves which damage humans and their environment. The participants should act ethically even beyond the necessities of law.
Ownership of biometric and respect for individuals’ data:
Accepting that individuals have considerable however not complete possession of their private information (regardless of where the information is saved and processed) especially their biometrics, requiring their non-public data, even when shared, to be respected and treated with the utmost care when used by others.
Serving human:
The technology ought to serve humans and must take into account the public good, neighborhood protection, and the overall benefits to individuals.
Justice and accountability:
Accepting the concepts of openness, impartial oversight, accountability and the right of appeal and suitable redress.
Promoting privacy-enhancing technology:
Promoting the best quality of accurate technological know-how use along with accuracy, error detection and correction, sturdy structures and satisfactory control.
Recognizing the dignity of individuals and families:
Supporting the dignity and human rights of individuals and families provided that it does not combat with the reputable and lawful objectives of the criminal justice system to guard the public against harm.
Equality
Planning and implementation of technological know-how to prevent discrimination or systemic bias based on religion, age, gender, race, sexuality or other descriptors of humans.
The Head of the Biometric Institute’s Privacy Experts Group Terry Aulich said “We recognized very early that the law could not hope to protect human rights and privacy across more than 190 countries. We, therefore, set out to create a concise, straightforward statement to guide our members in how they should behave. Even if some laws do not prevent commercial or governmental bad behavior, our ethical principles ask our members to operate at a higher level of accountability.”
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