Biometric features and privacy: condemned, based upon your finger print

Jan-Willem Bullee; Raymond Veldhuis

Biometric features and privacy: condemned, based upon your finger print

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What information is available in biometric features besides that needed for the biometric recognition process? What if a biometric feature contains Personally Identifiable Information? Will the whole biometric system become a threat to privacy? This paper is an attempt to quantifiy the link between biometrics and privacy. For a number of biometric-personal(ity) combinations, the availability, detectability and retrievability of Personally Identifiable Information from biometric features is calculated. This paper should make the reader more aware of the possibilities in this area and inspire further research. By the use of a meta-analysis, the possible risks of the fingerprint biometric and three personal(ity) traits are inventoried. Based on $d'$-values the retrievability of Personally Identifiable Information is determined. The results show that in all three possible biometric-personal(ity) combinations Personally Identifiable Information can be retrieved better than 50/50 guessing. This implies storing biometric data in the clear can be a threat to privacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC)
Pages	44-51
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-90-365-3383-6
Publication status	Published - May 2012
Event	33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux 2012 - Boekelo, Netherlands Duration: 24 May 2012 → 25 May 2012 Conference number: 33

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Conference	33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux 2012
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Boekelo
Period	24/05/12 → 25/05/12

Keywords

SCS-Safety
METIS-300022
Retina
Sexual orientation
Personality
Template Protection
Privacy
IR-87311
Biometric
Age
Ethnicity
Finger print
Diabetic
Gender
Hand geometry
Face Recognition
EWI-23735

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Experimental social engineering: investigation and prevention
Bullee, J.-W., 6 Oct 2017, Enschede: Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). 178 p.
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Bullee, Jan-Willem ; Veldhuis, Raymond. / Biometric features and privacy : condemned, based upon your finger print. Proceedings of the 33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux. Enschede : Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC), 2012. pp. 44-51

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Bullee, J-W & Veldhuis, R 2012, Biometric features and privacy: condemned, based upon your finger print. in Proceedings of the 33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux. Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC), Enschede, pp. 44-51, 33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux 2012, Boekelo, Netherlands, 24/05/12.

Biometric features and privacy: condemned, based upon your finger print. / Bullee, Jan-Willem ; Veldhuis, Raymond.
Proceedings of the 33rd WIC Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux and the 2nd Joint WIC/IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux. Enschede: Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC), 2012. p. 44-51.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic

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Biometric features and privacy: condemned, based upon your finger print

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Experimental social engineering: investigation and prevention

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