An overview of privacy-enhancing technologies in biometric recognition

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy-enhancing technologies have been introduced for protecting stored biometric data, which are generally classified as sensitive. In t...

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Autores: Melzi, Pietro, Rathgeb, Christian, Tolosana Moranchel, Rubén, Busch, Christoph
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/721310
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/721310
https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3664596
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Privacy-enhancing technologies
biometric recognition
data protection
generic framework
Database and storage security
Security requirements
Informática
Telecomunicaciones
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Sumario:Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy-enhancing technologies have been introduced for protecting stored biometric data, which are generally classified as sensitive. In this regard, various taxonomies and conceptual categorizations have been proposed and standardisation activities have been carried out. However, these efforts have mainly been devoted to certain sub-categories of privacy-enhancing technologies and therefore lack generalization. This work provides an overview of concepts of privacy-enhancing technologies for biometric recognition in a unified framework. Key properties and differences between existing concepts are highlighted in detail at each processing step. Fundamental characteristics and limitations of existing technologies are discussed and related to data protection techniques and principles. Moreover, scenarios and methods for the assessment of privacy-enhancing technologies for biometric recognition are presented. This article is meant as a point of entry to the field of data protection for biometric recognition applications and is directed toward experienced researchers as well as non-experts