Peace Research Institute Oslo
Security 2.0Biometric personhood
Governance and Ethics of Emerging ICT and Security Technologies18 November 2010
J. Peter Burgess
Peace Research Institute Oslo
Outline
Identity 1.0 and security
Identity 2.0
Social ethics of the biometric person
Security 2.0
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Identity 1.0 and security
- Identity is traditionally based on a stable ’self’
- Securtiy and identity have been regarded as inseparable
- Identity 1.0 structures the moral, political, social subject
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Identity 2.0
- Identity 2.0 is a logic of verification and certification
- Security in identity 2.0 involves meta-knowledge
- Security in identity 2.0 reconfigures trust
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Social ethics of the biometric person
- Biometrics drives the shift toward identity 2.0
- The personhood is field of verfication and certification
- Biometric identity disrupts moral identity
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Security 2.0
- Insecurity will shift toward identity threats
- Prophylactic models are entirely exhausted
- Security provisions are detachable from the person
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