Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:30:41 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Cato Institute Subject: Invitation to Cato biometrics event
January 17, 2002 Dear reader: I would like to invite you to "Eye in the Sky--- and Everywhere Else: Do Biometric Technologies Violate Our Rights?," a policy forum at the Cato Institute on Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. (luncheon to follow). Biometric technologies--- including facial recognition, retinal scanners, ID cards, and implantable chips coded with personal information--- have been increasingly in the news since camera use in last year Super Bowl, and particularly since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Panelists will discuss the benefits of and concerns about further deployment of biometric identification techniques in various areas of American life. Do they promise new levels of physical security and secure commerce by preventing others from impersonating you, or do they threaten fundamental values of privacy? What are the distinctions to be made between governmental and commercial deployment of biometric technologies, and what policy concerns arise when private companies profit from selling biometrics tools to law enforcement? The forum will feature Joseph J. Atick, chairman and CEO of Visionics Corp., Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Dorothy E. Denning of Georgetown University and RAND's John D. Woodward Jr. Cato policy forums and luncheons are free of charge. To register for this event, please visit <http://www.cato.org/events/020124pf.html> or call Julie Johnson by 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at (202) 789-5229, fax her at (202) 371-0841, or e-mail to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yours Sincerely, Wayne Crews ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************
