Biometrics expert joins privacy debate
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University of Kent product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 22, 2005
Dr Farzin Deravi from the University of Kent, is to participate in a Royal Institution of Great Britain debate titled "How private should our future be?".
Dr Farzin Deravi, Reader in Information Engineering and Director of Research at the Department of Electronics, University of Kent, is to participate in a Royal Institution of Great Britain debate titled "How private should our future be?".
This debate, presented in association with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC), will address such issues as how new technology will influence our daily lives and what new challenges science will have to confront and overcome in order to safeguard and maintain the right balance between the invasion and protection of our future privacy.
According to Deravi, who will be joined for the debate by Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty, and Professor Andrew Steane from the Centre for Quantum Computing, University of Oxford, one such challenge is standardisation in biometrics.
He said: "Biometric technologies are very much in the news these days".
"With the introduction of biometrics in border control programmes and the imminent roll out of national identity cards you would not be blamed for thinking that the technology is well established and reliable".
"However, the truth is that biometric technologies are still very much evolving and remain unproven for large-scale applications".
"Political and security imperatives have, however, meant that they are fast becoming a fact of life - ready or not".
"In this process the role of international standards is crucial in ensuring that any systems that are deployed are interoperable between different vendors and countries and that users are not locked into particular companies and technologies for the provision of such essential identity services".
"A concerted and multidisciplinary effort is therefore required to unlock the potential for biometrics, an area that is likely to have a large impact on our daily lives in the not too distant future".
Deravi and his colleagues at the Department of Electronics, an internationally renowned centre for pioneering research and development in biometrics and image analysis, have been taking an active role in this process of standardisation, contributing to the development of standards in the areas of face and signature recognition.
"How private should our future be?" will take place on Wednesday 23rd February, 1900-2030 GMT, at Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS.
The debate will be chaired by Michael Kenward, freelance writer and consultant, and the former Editor of New Scientist.
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