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DELIVERABLE D2.2 Hon g Kong Conference Report RISE PROJECT Project funded by the European Commission-FP7 Grant Agreement n°: 230389 Coordination Action (CA) Start date of the project: 1 March 2009 Duration: 36 months 1° Reporting Period Deliverable: D2.2 Title: Hong Kong Conference Report Due date: 31.03.2010 Actual submission date: 20.05.2010 Lead contractor for this deliverable: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Contact: [email protected] Dissemination Level: PU 1 The Third International Conference onWWW Ethics and .PolicyRISEPROJECT of Biometrics and International. EU Data Sharing, 2010, Hong Kong Table of Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Background of Conference ........................................................................................................... 3 III. Preparation for the Conference .................................................................................................... 4 A. Conference Venue and Logistics B. Invitation for Speakers IV. The Third International Conference ............................................................................................ 5 V. Call for Papers.............................................................................................................................. 14 VI. Abstracts and Biographies .......................................................................................................... 15 VII. Media Coverage ..................................................................................................................... 28 VIII. Conference Organization and Proceedings Organization .................................................. 31 IX. List of Participants ....................................................................................................................... 34 X. Speakers Presentations ................................................................................................................ 38 XI. Appendix A: Conference Brochure .................................................................................... 106 XII. Appendix B: Conference Proceedings ................................................................................ 136 2 The Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, 2010, Hong Kong I. Introduction Human identification using their physiological and behavioural characteristics, i.e. biometrics, is increasingly mapped into range of new civilian and commercial applications. The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies for a wide range of applications in education, law enforcement, immigration, healthcare, online security and financial services. The biometrics based technologies have opened new frontiers for medical diagnosis and information security. However recent research and deployment reports have shown that with negligible-to-modest effort, many leading biometric technologies are susceptible to attacks in which fake fingerprint tapes, static facial images and static iris stamps/images have been successfully employed as biometric samples. These fraudulent samples are processed by the biometric system to generate templates and to verify enrolled individuals. There has been a newfound urgency after September 11 attacks to develop cutting-edge security technologies. However, the performance of currently available biometrics technologies is yet to mature for its broad deployment in real environments. Performance estimation is a key issue in the comparison and evaluation of the biometric and biometric system in large scale secure access technology. The challenge lies in devising the effective performance indices and evolving their interdependence to convey security, accuracy, privacy and such other performance measures currently debated in the literature. In addition, the increasing usage of biometrics technologies have raised more concerns on the ethics, privacy and policy implications of biometrics. The large scale deployment of biometrics technologies has highlighted several challenges in the management of human identities. The large scale deployment and development of next generation biometrics system must address the increasing concerns on the ethics, privacy and policy implications. The novel biometrics sensing, signal/image representation, storage, retrieval, transmission, encryption, matching and decision making techniques have to be developed to address the ethical, legal, cultural and social concerns in the management of human identities. The challenges posed in the deployment and development of promising biometric technologies can be largely observed from engineering perspective, and from social perspective. Several research presentations have shown that when social and ethical factors are internalized into the technical design and decision making, the solution tends to be more effective, compatible and cost effective. II. Background of Conference The Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, also referred to as third RISE (Rising Pan European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics) meeting, is essentially a key milestone in the ongoing dialogue process within the scope of RISE project. This conference has been planned and fully scheduled in the European Commission supported RISE project no. 230389 funded under FP7, SP-4 Capacities. The increasing deployment of cutting edge security technologies has invited renewed concerns on the ethics, privacy and policy implications on the usage of these technologies. However, these concerns are not new but have also been raised and discussed earlier in the previous two conferences. The first of this conference was organized by European Commission in 2005 in Brussels and second one in 2006 in Washington DC, by the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Visit Program. The third international conference has been particularly organized in Asia by the RISE consortium to more actively involve the regional stakeholders in the dialogue process. The host city of Hong Kong in China was judiciously selected to avail the better connectivity and visa free entry for the likely participants from most of the countries. The key idea of the organizers has been to seek more active participation from the Chinese and Indian law enforcement, border control, privacy protection and the regulatory bodies in the dialogue process and bring awareness on the implications and challenges in the deployment of the biometrics technologies. 3 The Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, 2010, Hong Kong III. Preparation for the Conference The preparation for the conference started soon after the conclusion of the kick off meeting which was held in Rome on 12-13 March 2009. The initial task has been to come up with call for papers, develop and install a conference website, install a reliable conference paper submission and review submission system, select and book the conference venue, accommodation arrangement and booking for the conference participants. Some of these tasks like development of conference website, circulation for call for paper, booking the conference venue, etc. started much in advance. The mass mailing of the call of paper started from [email protected] in May 2009 itself and the initial deadline for the paper submission was set as 1st September, 2009. Online paper submission link was made available at http://iceb.comp.polyu.edu.hk/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php and the deadline for the paper submission was extended to seek more quality papers. The task of attracting potential authors to submit papers on the interdisciplinary topics in biometrics, i.e., the policy implications and the potential concerns with the biometrics and data security technologies, was challenging. The call for paper and participation was also posted on public notice boards in major international conferences, like BTAS 2009 held in Washington, whenever the program committee members had opportunity to visit such conferences. The conference website http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/iceb was regularly updated with the links and news from the most recent incidents depicting the challenges associated with the usage of biometrics and data protection technologies. Several social action groups, established research and development institutions on the bioethics, law enforcements, data privacy and protection regulatory bodies, system integrators, users and developers of biometrics technologies were located from all over the world and encouraged to submit the papers and participate in the conference. The call of papers for this conference is available on page 14 in this report. As can be noticed from the attached document, the call of papers clearly outlined the extended range of topics that would be of potential interest in the multidisciplinary domain of this conference. A. Conference Venue and Logistics The prime consideration in selecting the conference hall and location was the ease of access, quality of amenities, convenience and importantly the cost. The venue was therefore selected as the Senate Room of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University which is located within the campus. The conference organizers also supported and supervised the accommodation arrangements for the speakers and the