Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics

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 particularly on the relationship between the use of this technology and the protection of privacy, this book draws on material across a range of jurisdictions in order to explore several key questions. What are the privacy issues in the biometric context? How are these issues currently dealt with under the law? What principles are applied? Is the current regulation satisfactory? Is it applied consistently? And, more generally, what is the most appropriate way to deal with the legal implications of biometrics? Offering an analysis, and recommendations, with a view to securing adequate human rights and personal data protection, Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics will be an important reference point for those with interests in the tension between freedom and security.

Nancy Yue Liu is a research fellow at Norwegian Research Center for Computer and Law, and her main are of interests lie in legal issues about security and privacy. She is winner of the 2010 and 2007 Best Student Paper Award in the International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law.