Društvene implikacije biometrijskih sistema identifikacije
Social Implications of Biometrical Systems of Identification

Summary/Abstract: Biometric systems of identification have long been a controversial subject in the world while in Republika Srpska they became topical soon after the introduction of new types of personal identification cards with the central biometric data base have been announced. Technologically speaking, problems essentially pertain to the centralized base. Technical background, however, is merely a problem of conceptual nature which basically affects the relation between the state and its people. So, does storing everyone’s biometric finger prints in the central electronic data base mean that everyone is a suspect until proven not to be? And is this the first step towards the state with totalitarian supervision? What will be the next move of the system if non-critical implementation is allowed to take place today? Answers to this, and similar questions, lie solely in the critical reexamination of biometric systems of identifications.

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