{"id":1123,"date":"2011-08-05T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2023-06-01T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:34:47","slug":"do-employees-have-a-right-to-refuse-enrollment-in-a-biometric-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/others\/do-employees-have-a-right-to-refuse-enrollment-in-a-biometric-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Employees Have a Right to Refuse Enrollment in a #Biometric System?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"biometric<\/a>Biometrics is a Growing Identification Technology\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that biometric technology deployments are on the rise.\u00a0 Increasingly, retailers are catching on to the unique benefits and security that biometric technology offers to positively identify an individual by their physiological characteristics instead of through ID cards, personal identification numbers or passwords.\u00a0 The rapid growth of biometric technology<\/a> seemed to begin shortly after we shifted into a society aggressively focused on safety and security in the wake of the rise in global terrorism.\u00a0 Biometrics was soon recognized as the only technology that could tell with near absolute certainty that someone was who they claimed to be.\u00a0 Governments were the first to actively use biometric identification<\/a><\/strong> to secure their intellectual and physical property and then slowly expanded to border control<\/a> and public safety.<\/p>\n

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The progression of biometric technology didn\u2019t stop solely with security deployments though; it kept on growing and progressing.\u00a0 As price points dropped and the technology became more refined, deployments began to shift to the private sector as companies took notice that biometrics had strong potential to help them with problems like employee time theft<\/a><\/strong>, inventory shrink, identity theft, compliance and fraud.\u00a0 Widespread adoption by the private sector fueled the growth of biometric systems designed to positively identify individuals to prevent these problems and with this growth came increased scrutiny of the technology (specifically how individual biometric data was stored and what it may be used for other than identification) by Privacy advocates and proponents of civil liberty protection.\u00a0 Their feelings are that biometric technology<\/a><\/strong> violates individual privacy without a 100% guarantee that templates are safely stored and unable to be stolen and governments are not using the data to track citizens interacting with a system and subsequently disseminating the information collected to external bodies.<\/p>\n