The author of this book–an updated version of her Ph. D. dissertation at the Catholic
University of Leuven in Belgium–is clearly no stranger in the world of biometrics and …

Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth
consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology. Focusing …

For many years, the status of biometric data from a European data protection perspective
generated a lot of discussions among European bodies and legal experts. Finally, after four …

Biometric techniques, such as fingerprint verification, iris or face recognition, retina analysis
and hand‐written signature verification, are increasingly becoming basic elements of …

The rise of biometric data use in personal consumer objects and governmental
(surveillance) applications is irreversible. This article analyses the latest attempt by the …

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data
protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy …

Security and privacy in biometric systems have been traditionally seen as two requirements
hindering each other. Only in the recent past researchers have started investigating it as a …

Modern biometrics delivers an enhanced level of security by means of a “proof of property”.
The design and deployment of a biometric system, however, hide many pitfalls, which, when …

In June 2004, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs of
the European Parliament (the LIBE Committee) asked the JRC to carry out a study on the …

Biometrics offers greater security and convenience than traditional methods of personal
recognition. In some applications, biometrics can replace or supplement the existing …