Biometric data is everywhere now. Fingerprints to unlock your phone? Easy. A quick face scan at the airport? Routine. What about voice recognition? It’s even making its way into customer service, with your voice confirming your identity. We’ve all seen the convenience these technologies provide. But, alongside this convenience, serious ethical and privacy issues linger, often unseen. If biometric data is, at its core, pieces of ourselves, the implications of it being harvested, shared, or misused must be taken seriously.
The Silent Gathering of Biometric Data
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Jomo Kwame Sundaram is a former economics professor who served as a senior UN official during 2005-2015. Tan Zhai Gen is an University of Oxford biochemistry graduate currently involved in research. Both are Malaysians.
Health problems stemming from carbohydrates, especially sugar over-consumption are correlated to growing overweight, obesity and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, throughout the world. Credit: IPS
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 22 2017 (IPS) – In 2015, after revelations that the company had funded researchers to present academic papers recommending exercise to address obesity and ill health, while marginalizing the role of dietary consumpt…
Amina J. Mohammed is UN Deputy Secretary-General who addressed the General Assembly’s Annual AIDS Review meeting.
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2 2017 (IPS) – During the process of developing the Sustainable Development Goals it was clear to me how relevant and innovative the approach to ending AIDS had been and how important it would continue to be.
Amina J. Mohammed
Achieving our aims on AIDS is interlinked and embedded within the broader 2030 Agenda. Both are grounded in equity, human rights and a promise to leave no one behind.
In June 2016, Member States adopted the Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. As the Secretary-General’s report notes, the …
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 2017 (IPS) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis and the international community must step in before it worsens, humanitarian agencies warn.
The escalation of ethnic clashes in southeastern DRC in recent months has left millions displaced and on the verge of starvation.
In the past year alone, the conflict has displaced nearly 2 million, 850,000 of whom are children and some of whom have fled to the neighboring nations of Angola and Zambia. DRC already had the highest number of new displacements in the world in 2016.
Last month, the UN declared the DRC a level three humanitarian emergency�…
ROME, Jan 3 2020 (IPS) – In a world shaken by so many problems, it is difficult to look at 2020 and not make some kind of holistic analysis. While enormous progress has been made on many fronts, it is clear that the tide has turned, and we are now entering – or have already entered – a new low point in the history of humankind..
Roberto Savio
Today, we face an unprecedented existential threat brought about by the climate crisis. According to scientists, we have until 2030 to stop climate change, after which human conditions will be under several threats. Yet, we have just had a world conference in Madrid on climate change, which ended in nothing. Not only that, but sin…