The ongoing miniaturization of microelectronic chips led to a multiplication of their abilities and their use. This is the case with the systems of radio frequency identification (RFID), now widely available and nanotechnology will continue to grow, while their costs. Sources of productivity in industry and comfort in everyday life, however, these tools are synonymous with means of monitoring and control of man, especially when combined Acer Aspire One Battery with the identification of other biometric data.
Alain Weber, a lawyer and member of the Data Protection Commission of the League of Human Rights in April 2006, the threat that development of such technology raises our freedoms. We take the original text published on the website
The experience in your field, you feel the convergence of technologies creates a risk of violation of civil rights and privacy?
The Human Rights League (LDH) HP Pavilion G60 has worked on these issues from the Data Protection Act, 1978 files and freedoms. His commission “Freedom and computing ‘is happening today with many associations and organizations, when he stand up for civil liberties and human rights will be protected. We believe a priori negative against new technologies, we, on the contrary, it can be very useful in some areas, for example with the possibilities of surgical tools remote communication on the Internet, etc..
However, we believe there is a real acceleration of threats to human rights on one side by a combination of techniques that the network of information about people, others can be a benefit socio-political and legal name of the fight against support for terrorism, the tendency to the formation of mega-files containing personal data. Our role is to alert the public, especially when the use of technology, no matter what the benefits it provides, creates disorder in civil liberties or an invasion of privacy. Comfort and joy, giving a new technology is always a price, which can be reduced freedoms.
In addition, we will experience a severe safe atmosphere: in this context, the law on the fight against terrorism [2] provides a way to film the events, so that the collection of personal data to fuel litigation . In this case, the use of digital video technologies, perfectly legal, civil liberties Dell Inspiron 1545 and privacy of the individual as people are killed and files are created with their images without their knowledge if they demonstrate the right fundamental movement and to be together to undermine a news show.
The Law on Data Protection News 6 August 2004 [3] allows such practices? And what is with the European Convention on Human Rights?
The law of August 2004 does not satisfy us, because the level of rights protection, which reduces previously existed. The European Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 [4] – in which this law is the implementation of the French law – states that the Member States of the Union should not lower the level of protection of its laws . Or next to the text, the powers of the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) was a licensing system for biometric tools used in a private company can be strengthened. But again, they dropped their powers in relation to projects of the state: a decree, a new processing of personal data should not be a favorable opinion of the CNIL, but only a reasoned opinion, a department may impose biometrics in their own departments.
What is the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, it has established good, but the rights to limit that to register for a sustainable democratic society. The rights and freedoms may therefore have certain limitations. I would add that the Treaty of the European Union has a particular reading of “freedoms” that are not civil liberties that have a priority, but economic freedom and free enterprise.
In the state of the texts, sometimes just a hello to the Constitutional Court. In December 1998, the Constitutional Council, the position of the LDH by the transfer of further personal data between public authorities, namely the relationship between tax and social data (social security number), that the only purpose for avoid confusion, not to cross into separate files and extracting data for other purposes [5].
What is your position on the use of radio frequency identification (RFID)?
At this point, the LDH position “hard” is when your finger in the use of biometric data, that is, techniques to identify people on biological criteria, we are entering a logical problem. First, for ethical reasons, because man is in his lower body biometrics to human dignity. Second, because this technology is clearly a problem of “tracing” of people: RFID chips are used in the identification, detailed monitoring of the activities and operations carried out by one person, even if it is not include the administration, why the departure course. It is simply a risk of drift.
It’s like a wall against the big waves of the Pacific, as companies SONY VGP-BPS8 want to identify the instruments and control of employees, some people claim the time in airports and toll roads to save! What they do not see is that these biometrics help more than others, to create connections between data. This is less the fact that the file information that is contained frightening one. Sustainable and help to clarify the identification of the person to create secure connections between files, with subsequent use to which they have no control It’s not a “Big Brother” that awaits us , but “Big Brothers “.
You can say that everyone has hundreds of times the only game of its normal daily activities. Of course, the real battle is ahead, to avoid the relationship between these files and data. It is in this context that the LDH fighting within the group DELIS (Rights and Freedoms deal with the computerization of society), the electronic identity card provided, INES (National Identity secure electronic). The bill, which will be adopted in June, aims to, mandatory – either directly or, more subtly, so it is essential – should contain a card with a microchip, readable contactless radio frequency, personal identifiers ( fingerprints and digital photography).
The problem is that the state will be good for us all is a biometric identifier, monitoring and reconciliation of all our electronic transactions (banking, tax returns, insurance, entertainment book, etc.) .. Under the pretext of facilitating the daily life, we run the risk of serious and irreversible damage to privacy and individual liberties.
The argument that it is not also tell you if you have nothing to be ashamed of if you want more security, you can opt for no reason this kind of labeling?
With this language, we have created a society of suspects: it must prove not the accusers to prove the guilt of a person is not guilty! It must be very careful in reverse order, because it characterizes a kind of policeman of the company. In addition, the speech because fishing is the question, where is the limit: since you good citizens who have nothing to hide, the police should be able to go home, you can see how you live that listening to you host your bank account that you say look for taxes, etc.. If we test (for fun of course) should be regarded with people, how much they are willing to be transparent, “which have nothing to hide”, you quickly realize that their determination is any substance, but show soon. Freedom requires that everyone has a huge SONY VGP-BPS9/B sphere of secrecy and confidentiality: and what it is.
As for the argument of security, it does not take long for Dell Inspiron 600M Series analysis. For example, when airlines were the Bush administration after September 11th compelled to disclose personal information on passengers (PNR records for personal names), the land will continue across the Atlantic, the European Commission given the green light – the decision of the European Parliament fought for this question. But the French government still does not know what is the relationship of the United States of PNR data. In short, sending personal information, you will quickly lose control. In addition, the hope in the fight against terrorism has nothing to widespread surveillance of the population.
We are told that the Dell Inspiron 8000 techniques that INES be tight, is so protective of individual liberties. But recent history shows that a computer is made to be retained unbridled: Every time we installed a system of collection of personal data has already taken place. For example, ICT (Treatment of violations of the system) now lists all types of crimes and are available by people who are constantly on those that were originally defined just add: we abuse this system leads to victims of employment or housing saw prevented. The same trend is on the list of DNA (FNAEG, national automated genetic fingerprint) that originally reserved for sex offenders, and that the law Perben 2 of 9 March 2004 extended the most common offenders are visible. He is known as “light” version of INES to fear, we are moving gradually to the police much more on technological progress without the active support no doubt in a safe atmosphere is heavy and cumbersome. So we need against the strongest in the INES, for our freedom and the ability of future generations.