Australian Identity-Matching Services Bill / Jake Goldenfein and Monique Mann.

New York : AI Now Instutute, 2020

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Regulating biometrics: global approaches and open questions

Biometric identification -- Law and legislation.

Law reform Australia.

0. Introduction

1. The State of Play and Open Questions for the Future - Timeline of Legal Developments

2. Australian Identity-Matching Services Bill

3. The Economy (and Regulatory Practice) That Biometrics Inspires: A Study of the Aadhaar Project

4. A First Attempt at Regulating Biometric Data in the European Union

5. Reflecting on the International Committee of the Red Cross's Biometric Policy: Minimizing Centralized Databases

6. Policing Uses of Live Facial Recognition in the United Kingdom

7. A Taxonomy of Legislative Approaches to Face Recognition in the United States

8. BIPA: The Most Important Biometric Privacy Law in the US?

9. Bottom-Up Biometric Regulation: A Community's Response to Using Face Surveillance in Schools.

Jake Goldenfein (Melbourne Law School) and Monique Mann (Deakin University) track the institutional and political maneuvers that resulted in Australia building a large centralized facial recognition database (“The Capability”) for use by a range of government actors. They examine the failures of regulation to meaningfully challenge the construction of this system, or to even shape its technical or institutional architecture. - Publisher's website.

Amid heightened public scrutiny, interest in regulating biometric technologies like face and voice recognition has grown significantly across the globe, driven by community advocacy and research. Advocates continue to remind developers, profiteers, and those using and regulating these biometric systems that the future course of these technologies must––and will–– be subject to greater democratic control. The next few years are poised to produce wide-ranging legal regulation in many parts of the world that could alter the future course of these technologies. Addressing this moment of possibility, AI Now worked with academics, advocates, and policy experts to publish a Compendium of case studies on current attempts to regulate biometric systems, and reflect on the promise, and the limits, of the law. Edited by Amba Kak, AI Now's Director of Global Strategy & Programs, the compendium begins with an introduction and a summary chapter which identifies key themes from existing legal approaches, and poses open questions for the future. These questions highlight the critical research needed to inform ongoing national policy and advocacy efforts to regulate biometric recognition technologies.

Regulating biometrics : global approaches and urgent questions

1 online resource (pages 44-51) ; digital, PDF