RISE Meeting 'Results in an International Interest Group to Deepen Discussions on Biometrics and Security' in Washington, DC
On 5-6 May 2011, the EU funded initiative RISE (Rising pan‐European and International Awareness on Biometrics and Security Ethics) held a meeting in Washington DC, hosted and organised by the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET). The main focus of the meeting was to continue the international dialogue already initiated by earlier conferences and workshops on ethics and biometrics, as well as to discuss the establishment of an international interest group and to prepare the agenda for the 4th and final RISE International Conference to be held on 1-2 December 2011 in Brussels (if you are interested in participating please contact Silvia Venier – silvia.venier@cssc.eu). This high-level meeting resulted in a deeper understanding of global issues related to data protection and privacy and included roundtable discussions on biometrics and security in global perspective, emerging issues in biometrics and policy, emerging global policy questions, and security, privacy and ethics. Guest speakers included Mr. Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor and Mary Ellen Callahan, CPO at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Stewart Baker, former Assistant Secretary for Policy, DHS, Duane Blackburn, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Robert Mocny, Director of US-VISIT Program, DHS, Rene von Schomberg, European Commission, and Jay Stanley of the ACLU, amongst others. “The meeting provided for a lively and provocative exchange into a number of key policy matters of data protection and privacy. There was a rigorous exploration of the differences, as well as commonalities in these areas between the US and the EU, and it was clear that there was a strong basis formed for ongoing dialogue,” noted GSI Managing Director, Kush Wadhwa. Nigel Cameron, President of C-PET indicated that “we were delighted with the high level of engagement from government and private sector participants, especially participation from the White House and Department of Homeland Security. C-PET’s focus on engaging the long-term impacts of emerging technologies meshes perfectly with the aims of RISE and the Washington conference offered a powerful illustration of the value of roundtable engagement of these potent issues.” The RISE Consortium is comprised of ten partners from across the European Union, Asia, and the United States. Previous workshops and conferences have examined security issues related to “individual identification” in regards to border control and national ID programs, as well examined the “movement of people and goods” pertaining to international airport and port authority concerns. Presentations from previous RISE events can be found on the RISE website and presentations from this event will be posted there in the near future.
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom