Biometrics Institute Proclaims Three Laws of Biometrics - FindBiometrics

The Biometrics Institute has released Three Laws of Biometrics to guide the development and deployment of biometric technologies. The idea is inspired by Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, though the Laws themselves have obviously been updated to reflect concerns about a different technology in a different era. According to the Institute, the Three Laws of Biometrics are Policy, Process, and Technology (PPT), and they are meant to be applied in that specific order. First, biometrics developers should make sure that the thing they want to do follows certain legal and ethical principles, which is to say that it should respect the privacy and civil liberties of the people using it. After that, developers should have internal processes in place to make sure that those policies are followed, and only then should they proceed with the development of the technology itself.