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Introduction:

Biometric use has increased dramatically in the past years and thus causing an increase in research and development to increase the quality of the Biometric use.

Background:

For centuries humans have used the human characteristics to identify individuals. However, in the nineteenth century with the increase in population and more development in cities, crime levels increased as well. So, the justice system came up with a way to identify criminals, one way was the Bertillon system of measuring various body systems, the measurements were sorted by height or any other measurement, this field was called anthropometries.

Potential Benefits:

The major benefits of Biometrics is its security, convenience and fraud reduction. By using the human characteristics as the tool for recognition, we can be sure that not one characteristic is the same as another. Every human’s DNA is different so we can be sure of that.

Legal and Ethical Issues:

One main ethical issue biometrics is that the use of personal characteristics could seriously undermine our personal freedom and democratic rights. It is a major exposure of our one true self and it is seriously prone to fraud and spoof.

Security Concerns:

It is fair to assume that everyone’s body characteristics are unique to themselves, but it is also realistic to know that most of our body changes over the years. There are certain things like years, fingerprints and the iris that are more reliable, and then there are certain things like the face that changes over the years. These changes cause a lot of security concern to companies that are developing technology that uses biometrics.

Social Problems:

One major social concern that is tied with Biometrics is the that these type of security is linked to our physical characteristics, things that cannot easily be changed. Once we link security and our body it is basically irreversible.

Further Required Research:

There are many issues with fingerprint authentication, there is an increase in fingerprint fraud, thus these Biometric companies are working hard to increase the biometric authentication for better security.

Conclusion:

Overall, the Biometric technology has come a long way from where it started and every day there are new developments to increase its security and benefits to our society.