“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a

little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor

safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

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I’m Eric from Argus Global. today I’m going to talk about

Biometrics, and why freedom and safety don’t have to be

enemies

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Cake or Death? Freedom or Safety?

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• Biometrics - not new. – Egypt.

• A Fingerprint in 1888?– Argentina

...a little history

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...today

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...today• Biometrics – around a long time

• $4,000 million in 2010

• $14,000 million in 2019

• Chinese rewards for fingerprints

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Our world today?

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...our world today?

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Our world tomorrow?

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Biometrics all around us...

• Your face in the supermarket• Your fingerprint in the gym

• Your eyes on that advert

• Risks to your safety, reduced?

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Biometrics – Protecting Privacy

• How secure is your laptop/phone?

What about your bank account?

• ...or even your identity?11

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As we start to use biometrics...

• “– just where do we find balance

between the need to be secure from attack, to reduce risk, and at the

same time, be free from unwarranted intrusion?”

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“The advance of a Civilisation is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of Privacy”

- Isaac Asimov

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Thanks for listening. Eric McDonogh, Argus Global – Hall 3/S12

(Just behind me, near the London Bus)

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