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Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics

Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics

Patrizio Campisi, Emanuele Maiorana, Alessandro Neri
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781605668369|ISBN10: 1605668362|EISBN13: 9781605668376
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch001
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Campisi, Patrizio, et al. "Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics." Handbook of Research on Computational Forensics, Digital Crime, and Investigation: Methods and Solutions, edited by Chang-Tsun Li, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch001

APA

Campisi, P., Maiorana, E., & Neri, A. (2010). Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics. In C. Li (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Computational Forensics, Digital Crime, and Investigation: Methods and Solutions (pp. 1-22). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch001

Chicago

Campisi, Patrizio, Emanuele Maiorana, and Alessandro Neri. "Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Biometrics." In Handbook of Research on Computational Forensics, Digital Crime, and Investigation: Methods and Solutions, edited by Chang-Tsun Li, 1-22. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch001

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Abstract

The wide diffusion of biometric based authentication systems, which has been witnessed in the last few years, has raised the need to protect both the security and the privacy of the employed biometric templates. In fact, unlike passwords or tokens, biometric traits cannot be revoked or reissued and, if compromised, they can disclose unique information about the user’s identity. Moreover, since biometrics represent personal information, they can be used to acquire data which can be used to discriminate people because of religion, health, sex, gender, personal attitudes, and so forth. In this chapter, the privacy requirements, the major threats to privacy, and the best practices to employ in order to deploy privacy sympathetic systems, are discussed within the biometric framework. An overview of state of the art on privacy enhancing technologies, applied to biometric based authentication systems, is presented.

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