Identity, privacy and security challenges with Ontario's enhanced driver's licence

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 742-747

  McPhail, Brenda ^a   Boa, Krista ^a   Ferenbok, Joseph ^a   Smith, Karen Louise ^a   Clement, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Enhanced driver's licence (EDL); Facial recognition technology (FRT); ID cards; Identification; Identity; Privacy; Public policymaking; Radio frequency ID (RFID); Security

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED DRIVER'S LICENCE (EDL); FACIAL RECOGNITION; ID CARDS; IDENTITY; POLICY MAKING; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

BIOMETRICS; PUBLIC RISKS; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 77952687693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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