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Study Guide for Biometrics Final Examination

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1. Who said, and when "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidiout encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."?

p. 207

2. What label found on the original Social Security Card is a hyperbolic oxymoron in consideration of current stature?

p. 208

3. How much is six hundred, threescore, and six?

p. 209-210

4. List at least three negatively connotative terms commonly used by the "ignorant masses" to describe the possibility of society's implementation of biometrics usage for identification.

5. List five specific situations where the use of biometrics for identification would be beneficial.

6. Site one of the four definitions of "privacy" mentioned in the book. Then defend your own interpretation of privacy. Which one of the consitiutional amendments mentioned in chapter 13 is commonly used to support an individuals "right to privacy."?

p. 200, 219

7. Who said, "The central storage and easy accesibility of computerized data vastly increase the potential for abuse of that information, and I am not prepared to say that future developments will not demonstrate the necessity of some curb on such technology."?

p. 229

8. What Supreme Court's case majority opinion ruled that a government's centralized, computer database containing massive amounts of extremely sensitive medical information about citizens passed consitutional muster?

p. 226

9. What Lessons are learned from "Goldman v. Weinberger"?

p. 234

10. In consideration of the Privacy Act's basic provisions, define record.

p. 236

11. Is "Routine Use" restricted by the "No Disclosure Without Consent Rule"? Why or Why not?

p. 238

12. The Privacy Act requires the data collector to "establish appropriate ___________,______________, and _____________ safeguards to insure the security and confidentiality of records...."

                     --"Who defines appropriate?"--

p. 236

13. Support your opinion of the use of biometrics at the "Snooper Bowl".

Starts at p. 247

14. Define lassiez-faire (Wiki)

p. 274

15. List four options our policy makers may consider as options regarding privacy policy related to private-sector use of biometrics.

p. 274-276

16. What biometric has Ben Gurion Airport intstalled and what are the results of this implementation?

p. 289

17. Suggest and defend a use for biometrics at our porous borders.

p. 289

18. For what purposes does Malaysia use its Government Multi-Purpose Card. (for now anyway.) Defend why it would or would not work in America. List AND Describe potential show-stopping issues concerning to deployment of a National ID Card.

p. 296-298

19. Describe a particular use of biometrics in the private sector that sparked an interest in you as you read it. If you didn't, perhaps you should take a look...sometime soon. I know you guys may have similar interests, but i don't expect you all to have your interests sparked the one and same particular incidents.

References

Gene Bogart gene.bogart@mgccc.edu
Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age; McGraw-Hill 2003; John D. Woodward Jr., Nicholas M. Orlans, Peter T. Higgins

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