Risking Privacy Data to Protect Privacy Data?

I was inspired by this Jodi Daniel’s Data Privacy newsletter — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-new-data-privacy-jodi-daniels-1c/

Citizens’ biometrics data is known to be among the most sensitive privacy data which must be protected by all means.

It might be worth taking the risk of using the most sensitive citizens’ privacy data where it is used for the identification (as against authentication) of citizens for such high-value objectives as forensic and screening suspicious guys out of critical infrastructures — intelligence offices, military bases, nuclear power plants and the like.

Do you believe, however, that it would be wise to use the most sensitive citizens’ biometrics data for protecting citizens’ other privacy data and personal information, knowing that the use of biometrics for identity authentication (as against identification) brings down the identity security?

It might be like risking one of your children in order to lose another child. Is it worth giving any thought to?

Biometrics could be used elsewhere, though, for low-security use cases that availability and convenience matter more provided citizens are transparently informed of the negative security effect of biometrics as illustrated in this 2-minute video — “Biometrics in Cyber Space” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

Interested to know more about the characteristics of biometrics?

You are invited to this blog collection — “Biometrics Unravelled | password-dependent password-killer” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/

Website — https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/

Digital identity blogs collected at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collection-digital-identity-comments-hitoshi-kokumai-posted-kokumai/