From the course: Privacy, Governance, and Compliance: Data Sharing
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Your physical fingerprint
From the course: Privacy, Governance, and Compliance: Data Sharing
Your physical fingerprint
- [Lecturer] In several parts of the world, the human fingerprint is used as the default identifier for several basic aspects of life, like getting government benefits, proving your eligibility to vote, et cetera. In the U.S., I had to give the government my fingerprints several times during my naturalization process as a U.S. citizen. I recently read a paper titled "Unique In the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility", that defines how identifiable you can be via your human fingerprint. The link to that paper is on the bottom left of the slide on your screen right now. The paper states that 12 points are required to uniquely identify a human fingerprint. The paper then proceeds to examine how your digital fingerprint, that is, data about where you are and when, identifies you. This can be especially critical when you are on the move and there is other data available about you elsewhere.
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