Second-generation biometric technologies are those biometrics that require less human cooperation and can be run in a transparent and “invisible” way to the subjects. This has led to a shift from human eye performed identification (e.g. traditional fingerprint analysis) to increasingly automated, digital and “smart” biometrics. Examples are technologies that measure “motor skills”, electromagnetic body signals or human-computer interaction patterns ( Mordini & Tzovaras, 2012 , p. 9).
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Biometric Data in the EU (Reformed) Data Protection Framework and Border Management: A Step Forward or an Unsatisfactory Move?
Simone Casiraghi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) and Alessandra Calvi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9489-5.ch010
Abstract
Biometrics technologies have been spreading cross-sector in the public and private domains. Their potential intrusiveness, in particular regarding privacy and data protection, has called the European legislators, in the recent EU data protection reform, to introduce a definition of “biometric data,” and to grant biometric data specific protection, as a “special category of data.” Despite the reformed framework, in the field of border management, the use of biometric data is expected to increase steadily because it is seen as a more efficient and reliable solution. This chapter will look into the reformed data protection and border management legal frameworks to highlight discrepancies between the two, and ultimately assess to what extent the new data protection reformed regime for biometric data is satisfactory.