Chertoff zegt de Vingerafdrukken geen Persoonsgegevens `' zijn
Door Peter Swire |
De Secretaresse Michael Chertoff is van de Veiligheid van het geboorteland slecht in het bespreken van de duw van het beleid van Bush om striktere identiteitssystemen tot stand te brengen gestruikeld. Chertoff was onlangs in Canada dat bespreekt, onder andere onderwerpen, de zogenaamde „Server in de Hemel“ programma om vingerafdrukgegevensbestanden onder de V.S., Canada, het UK, en Australië te delen.
In een recente briefing met Canadese pers (die nog om in de V.S.) heeft worden opgenomen, legde Chertoff de opschrikkende verklaring af dat de vingerafdrukken „“ niet bijzonder privé zijn:
VRAAG: Sommigen heffen op dat de privacyaspecten van dit ding, weet u het, het delen van dat soort gegevens, zeer persoonsgegevens, onder vier landen vrij een eng ding is.
SECRETARESSE CHERTOFF: Goed, eerst en vooral, een vingerafdruk is nauwelijks persoonsgegeven omdat u het op glazen en tafelzilver en artikelen helemaal over de wereld verlaat, zijn zij als voetafdrukken. Zij zijn niet bijzonder privé.
Velen van ons zouden met recht moeten worden verrast dat onze vingerafdrukken niet „als persoonsgegevens“ door het hoofd van DHS worden beschouwd. Wat nog belangrijker is, gaat DHS zelf niet akkoord. In zijn definitie van „persoonlijk identificeerbare informatie“ - de informatie die een Beoordeling van het Effect van de Privacy wanneer gebruikt door overheid teweegbrengt - de lijsten van de Afdeling specifiek: “biometrische herkenningstekens (b.v., vingerafdrukken).”
De commentaren van Chertoff hebben getrokken scherpe kritiek van Jennifer Stoddart, de Canadese ambtenaar verantwoordelijk voor privacykwesties. De „vingerafdrukken vormen uiterst persoonlijke informatie waarvoor er duidelijk een hoge verwachting van privacy is,“ bovengenoemde Stoddart.
Er zijn dwingende redenen om vingerafdrukken als „uiterst persoonlijke informatie te behandelen.“ De sterkste reden is dat de vingerafdrukken, als niet zorgvuldig gebruikt, de grootste bron van identiteitsdiefstal zullen worden. De vingerafdrukken die in gegevensbestanden helemaal over de wereld zullen worden gedeeld niet lang geheim voor blijven, en de identiteitsdieven zullen voordeel nemen.
Een snel Webonderzoek op „valse vingerafdrukken“ verschijnt goedkope en gemakkelijke methodes voor -het-bij-huis valse vingerafdrukken. Zoals langs besproken genoteerde veiligheidsdeskundige Bruce Schneier, één techniek is beschikbaar voor onder $10. Het werd geprobeerd „tegen elf commercieel beschikbare vingerafdruk biometrische systemen, en kon aan betrouwbaar dwaas allemaal.“ De secretaresse Chertof of is niet van deze duidelijke resultaten op de hoogte of verkiest om hen te negeren. Hij zei in Canada: „Het is zeer moeilijk om een vingerafdruk te vervalsen.“
Het argument van Chertoff over het verlaten van vingerafdrukken liggend rond op „glazen en tafelzilver“ is ook naast het punt. Today, we leave our Social Security numbers lying around with every employer and numerous others. Yet the fact that SSNs (or fingerprints) are widely known exposes us to risk.
There have been numerous questions raised about how this Administration is treating our personal information. Secretary Chertoff’s comments show a new reason to worry — they don’t think it’s “personal” at all.
See More:Biometrics Database StateHave Your Say: Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
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19 Responses to “Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’”
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Kim
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 am | Link to this
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JD
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm | Link to this
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Ron
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm | Link to this
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REVOLTER
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm | Link to this
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Alex
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm | Link to this
ReplyIf they TAKE your finger prints or DNA without your permission they are stealing from you. Pure and simple.
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paul
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm | Link to this
ReplyChertoff and most of Bush’s administration are of Israeli descent…
The TSA in the USA uses an Israeli company for security at ALL their commercial airlines.
Scary
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pingback:
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 pm | Link to this
U.S. to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints | Matador Ninety-FourReply[…] comments made by Chertoff about fingerprints not being personal data fits well in this picture. Just a small step to introduce the same conditions for domestic […]
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Bloggulator
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 pm | Link to this
ReplyRegarding the prominence of Israeli influence within the Bush Administration (and the US government in general), the following high profile people recently making top decisions for the United States happen to be DUAL US-Israeli citizens:
Paul Wolfowitz
Richard Perle
Doug Feith
Dov Zakheim
George Tenet
Michael Chertoff
Michael Mukasey
Marc Grossman
Philip Zelikow
Ari Fleischer
Elliot Abrams
Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Henry KissingerAre we-the people paying our taxes to a government of the United States, or Israel? Kinda hard to tell. Imagine if there was just *ONE* government official who was discovered, by chance, to be a dual US-*Palestinian* (or any other Arab/Muslim) nation…. (except perhaps Saudi….)
There would be investigations, inquiries, grand juries, you name it, and calls of “Send him to Gitmo” by the corporate weasel media.
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elmysterio
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 pm | Link to this
ReplyChertoff is a mouthpiece for the neo-con nazi empire… If you remember your history, Chamberlain is a historical pariah due to the fact that he ‘appeased’ Hitler’s Germany. The sad part is, we’re all doing that now with the US/UK/Israel ‘axis of evil’ or the ‘coalition of the damned’. Chertoff should NOT be allowed to step foot on Canadian soil and should be arrested as a war criminal if he does. Same goes for the rest of the American Nazis. This is only just begun folks… the worst is yet to come.
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Petrusque
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm | Link to this
ReplyThey will get everyone when most vulnerable. Traverllers when they must go to US (of coruse, to distonguish them from terrorists :-! , school children while they are naive ( of course, to protect them from kidnappint :-! , laid off workers when appplying for a new job ( of course, to prevent illegal immigrants from taking it :-! , each and every wone for each and any good reason they can find.
And if the resistance is futile now, it will be much more futile to resist uppcoming tyrany when everyone is in database and easily identifiable.
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arotuie
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm | Link to this
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Ausie
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 1:53 am | Link to this
ReplyI don’t care. I am never going to go to Stalinla, I mean; ‘Chertoff Land’. although I once wished to visit the United States of America.
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patrick miller
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 4:52 am | Link to this
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BlueyBlogger
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 10:48 am | Link to this
ReplyWell now, I have some news for all of you, which you can check out for yourself.
First of all, your fingerprints are NOT yours, unless you have claimed your sovereignty in some shape or form….such as a “Claim of the Life”, or returning your Birth Certificate to its original birthplace, and making the original Fiduciary the NEW Fiduciary in ALL matters. With either of these two items in place…NOBODY can touch your body without your express permission.
Whilst you possess an ALL-CAPS name on your licence, credit card, Birth Certificate, etc, etc,..they can own your fingerprints….so, correct the situation and watch them squirm. -
Aldo
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm | Link to this
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Ringo
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Link to this
ReplyWhy should I give my fingerprints to a guy who looks like he just stepped off the set off “Night of the Living Dead”?
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rgl
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am | Link to this
Reply“Chertoff is an ISRAELI first and formost!!”
OK - I have no problem with acknowledging that fact. Still doesn’t detract from the fact that “Chertoff, like his boss bu$h, is a moron. A highly paid, self-important moron.
Period.”
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Yutube
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm | Link to this
ReplyGood point. Ideally, the US would simply pay for the projects, and let more legitimate and experienced bodies implement them.
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pingback:
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Link to this
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These people have lost their damned minds. Next to DNA, I think fingerprints are the MOST PERSONAL DATA there is. They have taken a “terrorist” event and used it to take away all of our privacy and civil liberties. Hell, Mr. Chertoff, No. 1, go find some REAL terrorists and No. 2 FOR ONCE, DO YOU DAMNED JOB AND DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THIS COUNTRY AND ENFORCE ARTICLE 4 SECTION 4 OF OUR CONSTITUTION. All it would take is one call from our traitorous occupant of the White House the job could be done.