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By Michael (Micha) Shafir [ 27/04/2008 ] Publishing Free Articles Zone articles is subject to our Publisher's Terms Of Service |
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P-border - The Interior Minister of Israel Mr. Shitrit has decided that Fingerprints, Face recantation and Iris scan are not too invasive for privacy and are anyway stimulating protests and come under attack by civil libertarians argue that biometrics will lead to an even deeper erosion of personal privacy in both the real world and cyber-space. The Interior Minister has decided to adopt a new authentication method that he believes might not arouse too much antagonism, a new biometrics authentication technique has been adopted for this purpose, identifying or verifying the identity of a person, based on his Urine (also known as “ID-P”). The Urine samples is expecting to be collected into central biometric database containers and some of it will be analyzed and be transplanted or dripped on every Passport, license deriver and national card ID in Israel. The interior minister Mr. Shitrit will be the first to own a new ID-P Passport. The border’s officials in Israel started to train the Border Protection Officers to collect analyze and authenticate the ID-P Passport’s holders, validating or figuring out the identity of the passengers via their unique Urine DNA Identifiers and in addition to analyzing the sample for the full range of prohibited substances. In some cases, a fewer number of tests may be needed to detect doping. It should be noted that the measurements of values for the Bio-Passport (haemoglobin, free plasma haemoglobin, reticulocytes, stimulation index, haematocrit) do not present any particular technical difficulties. The air fields authority allocated some areas in the Ben-Gurion airport terminal for the new Biometric Collection Stations (P-borders). The Border Protection Officers will be trained to detect 100 percent of the foreign passengers’, ID-P biological passports and urine screening. The first step will be the completion of the pilot program that required international visitors to provide Urine Biometrically check-out at the airport.
The ID-P program provides biometrics identity management services to entities throughout the Israeli government. Most international visitors applying to enter the country experience ID-P collection procedures — Urine ID collection and ID-P passport analysis.
The Authentication Process:
1.Visitors’ biometrics is collected and checked against a database of known criminals and suspected terrorists.
2.When the visitor arrives at the port of entry, the Border Protection Officer uses the same biometrics – Urine sample to verify the person at the port is the same person who received the visa.
3.What’s new under ID-P process is that the Border Protection Officer now uses the Urine pot to capture your discharge.
4.You first put your ureter into edge of a pot then you piss on the scanner.
5.The officer takes your sample to analyze. (Fig 3)
6.These procedures add only seconds to the overall processing time.
Fig. 2: Collection Unit
Why do we collect this information?
1.The biographic and biometric data are used to match your identity against the data captured by the Ministry of interior at the time the visa was issued to ensure that you are the same person who received the visa. In addition, your digital Urine ID that was taken at the visa-issuing point is displayed to the Border Protection Officer for visual comparison and confirmation.
2.Using all these tools, the Border Protection Officer will then either admit you or conduct additional inquiries based on the verification results. These procedures reduce fraud, identity theft, and the risk that terrorists and criminals will enter to Israel undetected or by using stolen or fraudulent documents.
Fig. 3: Wireless ID-P analyzer
P-mate for woman -- Just lower pants a little, slip underwear to the side, place P-mate in position, lean forward slightly, and pee on the biometric scanner.
Clarification:
This article is a protest against the increasing use of biometric data worldwide and against the Ministry of Interior in Israel for their hurtful plans to implant unique biometrics signatures in ID cards and collect the invasive information in databases. All the biometrics collection principles and flow charts in this article are accurate. The “Urine Collection” just demonstrate in a Parodic way, how biometrics collection is extremely invasive process violating our liberty and privacy.
Biometrics are automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Some of the features include measurements of face, fingerprints, handwriting, hand geometry, iris, retinal, vein, and voice. Invasive Biometric technology is now the foundation of a secure identification and intrinsic personal information data collection system maintained by DEMOCRATIC governments worldwide…
The information is uploaded for various purposes to be utilized by numerous governmental agencies for verification and distribution, all under the premise of “increasing security”.
In 1903 NY State Prison began fingerprinting prisoners for security purposes and since then the governments are systematically proposed various schemes to collect information on the citizenry. The Judicial Branch in several states has ruled against mass collection of personal information as a violation of personal privacy.
In Perkey v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1986) the Supreme Court of California ruled that, "The collection of fingerprints for ... unspecified and widespread usage infringes on individual privacy rights."
Fingerprints, facial geometry, and retinal scans and the communication thereof are protected under the right to liberty and property which is a basic understanding of the US Constitution which has been backed by 200 years of case law, protecting these basic human rights.
The government’s stance is that “the war on terror has prompted the need for increased security measures”. When the citizenry allows blatant violations of basic Civil Liberties it is the death of Democracy. In Politics Aristotle said, “The basis for a democratic state is liberty”.
WE MUST NOT TRUST GOVERMENTS:
On November 2007 (UK) HMRC's loss 25 million child benefit records held on two CDs include biometrics information. A month later more than 3 million U.K. learner drivers have gone missing from a firm in the U.S., the government has admitted….
Biometric collection is harming and putting in danger our liberty and privacy and are not protecting us from crime and terror. The accuracy of fingerprints for example is only 99% (every 1% error is 10,000 mistakes per million, in 50M records it comes to 500,000 MISTAKES PER SINGLE SCAN - 50M people is less then 16% of the U.S. total Population…). A person provides a sample biometric, sometimes without his knowledge, and the system must compare that sample to every stored record to attempt to return a match. This is known as a one-to-many match (otherwise we cannot find criminals and we’re NOT criminals we’re free humans), and is done without any corroborating data. Because the matching process is based on the closeness of the new sample to a stored sample, most systems return a likely list of matches… Hence any unique biometric sample, whether a fingerprint, voice recording, or iris scan, is not matched from the raw data. There is too much data to store and compare during each attempted match, especially if the sample needs to be transmitted to a central database for matching (???) which requires a lot of authorizations (unsecured) otherwise this information need to be decentralized (very unsecured), Instead, biometric systems use templates. The raw data is simplified through feature extraction. Face recognition systems need the most number of features to be extracted and hand scans need the least. The extracted features are compressed further into a sample template which is then compared to a stored template to determine if there is a match. (Huge error rate) Information is lost with each level of compression making it impossible to reconstruct the original scan from the extracted points. Since even minor changes in the way a sample is collected (different scanners and manufactures) can create a different template for a single individual, matches are based on probability. Systems are adjustable to the amount of difference they will tolerate to confirm a match. As the collection database is getting bigger the efficiency of catching criminals id getting lower, Because of this, the accuracy of all biometric systems diminishes over time. Therefore - Our privacy and liberty are getting sacrificed for nothing!
We must save our liberty and privacy, for democratic system and state Biometrics Collection is an ominous risk of extinction.
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Michael (Micha) Shafir - CTO, founder, seasoned entrepreneur (RadWare, MagniFire, PonsEye, Pons - Technology GreenHouse , CrossID ), Inventor
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