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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J. Peter Burgessjpb@jpeterburgess.com