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Re: the link between biometrics and PII needs careful management

From: Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 01:17:45 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAjunna=cZ2cfwZnkXJe9NNoaTnM5EwTAt3FP1vUXYWMJS8OfQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@gmail.com>
Cc: "public-credentials (public-credentials@w3.org)" <public-credentials@w3.org>
+1000

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 12:05 AM Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/30/1033941/afghanistan-biometric-databases-us-military-40-data-points/
>
> My takeaway: Instead of putting PII and biometrics in the same database,
> we need to put them in different places, but prove that there's a link
> between the holder of a biometric cred and the holder of other PII. I see
> companies like iRespond doing this, but I also seem some
> biometric applications that are more troubling.
>
Received on Wednesday, 1 September 2021 08:18:10 UTC

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