Biometrics has made a silent grip entry into the daily lives of individuals: biometric passport, opening car door finger recognition score in school canteens photograph the venous system ... Examples of common uses of biometrics are multiple and number only increase as biometric techniques themselves evolve.
Covering grip all methods of automatically recognizing grip a person based on his physical, biological grip or behavioral biometrics has been used since its inception as a means of identification. Biometric data (DNA, fingerprints, vein pattern, shape of the face ...) have as a major feature being unique grip and permanent. They are thus closer to what could be defined as a "UUID". [1]
In the nineteenth century anthropologists such as A. Bertillon or C. Lombroso, the fathers of modern criminology, grip proposed use of biometrics for law enforcement purposes by identifying individuals in files through grip their physical grip characteristics. These techniques were then used to facilitate the work of the police and promote the arrest of criminals. However they do allow a partial recognition of the individual and the probability of error were important.
Since then, techniques have evolved to keep track of a person and formally recognized. Therefore, it is no longer possible to escape this control worthy of the demiurgic figure of "Big Brother" in George Orwell's body betrays him self. It is the advent of "biopower" announced by Michel Foucault [2], a form of control from the individual himself and made available to the public authority. It is no longer possible or lie, or hide, the body is given formal and quasi unfalsifiable. [3]
The establishment of such an identification process can probably be justified and even find some enthusiastic devotees. Indeed, grip with the systematic grip use of biometric identification methods, it is now impossible to escape justice, simply a single fingerprint or DNA traces of guilty that it becomes hunted and found by the authorities. What about the possibilities in the fight against identity theft. The use of a false identity is a recurring problem for certain administrative services: fraud vital card is evaluated each year hundreds of thousands of euros, passport control and visa is an essential tool in the prevention and the fight against terrorism ...
However today face increasing pressure to secure the use of biometrics is increasingly at the expense of fundamental freedoms. The right to respect for private life is undermined by intrusive and harmful nature of biometrics and the freedom grip to come and go to see greatly reduced grip through the use of the latter in regulating the flow of people. More generally, biometrics by the very fact of reducing individuals to their genetic heritage, infringes the principle of dignity of the human being.
These various threats grip posed Biometrics fundamental freedoms have long been apprehended by the law both nationally and supra-national legal standards and many of unequal value came circumscribe the use of biometrics. The Constitution, the law "Informatique et Libertés" of 1978, the European Charter for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Community grip law are all safeguards regulating the use of biometrics.
However, it is questionable whether this framework of biometrics is sufficient to prevent and deter attacks against fundamental freedoms and what are the current challenges posed by biometrics with respect to them and their protection?
Biometrics is a tool for verifying the identity grip increasingly important today and which by its very nature and its modes of operation threatens fundamental freedoms such as the respect for privacy and freedom of movement (I) . Therefore, it is essential that the law actually regulates grip the use of such a method. However, the current legal protection on biometrics still has some inconsistencies to be truly optimal. Today, an adequate level of protection remains to be found (II).
[3] G. DUBEY "the human body as a new identity card" documentary "Window on the body" broadcast on France 5 July 2012 http://www.telecom-em.eu/content/le-corps-notre-nouvelle-piece-didentite
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