HIDE – Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection Ethics

Policy Forums

offer a setting for exploratory discussions of complex issues involving multiple parties. Unlike focus groups, policy forums do not have the direct tie-in to a particular technology or a set of technology solutions; instead they address wide ranging general policy issues, which crosscut all technological fields. The general remit of Policy Forums is to reflect on and question basic assumptions and values involved in the public conversation on biometrics and personal detection technologies. They issue a yearly comprehensive report on their activity.

Activity Leader: The Hastings Center
Scientific Coordinator: Tom Murray

Policy areas to be examined are:

1. Privacy as Contextual Integrity
   • D4.1a Policy Forum Report on Privacy as Contectual Integrity
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2. Body Issues
   • D4.2a Policy Forum Report on Body Issues
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3. Outsourcing of Systems for Detection, Identification and Authentication
   • D4.3a Policy Forum Report on Outsourcing of Biometrics and Personal Detection Technologies for Detection, Identification, and Authentication
   • Read more...

 

Call for Experts

Partipants to a HIDE Policy Forum are entitled to:

1. Participate to the Policy Forum Meeting
2. Collaborate online for the entire duration of the project (3 years activity)
3. Contribute to write the Policy Paper

Participants will be officially ackowledged by the HIDE Project and the European Commission.

Participants will have a chance to participate also in the international HIDE Network.

If you are interested in partecipating in one of the HIDE Policy Forum please send your short BIO, and a motivation letter indicating to which Policy Forum you wish to participate.

Letter and bios should be addressed to the HIDE Secretariat: info@hideproject.eu

Selected experts will receive Username and Password to modify the wiki pages of their policy forum and to upload documents.

Reimbursement Policy

A few grants are available for participants who need to have their expenses for meeting participation covered by the HIDE project. Applicants asking for reimbursement should motivate their requests.