Biometrics: Privacy’s Foe or Privacy’s Friend?

Response to Privacy as a Public Good

Most of the legal, philosophical, and social-science thinking about privacy emphasizes its value to the individual with less attention to its value to society. Professors Fairfield and Engel join a growing number of privacy scholars who are probing privacy’s value to society and policy options to protect privacy’s social value. They signal its social importance and also underscore weaknesses in...

Kant: Friend or Foe of the Believer? Plantinga and Other American Christian Responses to Kant's Epistemology

Low Cost Multimodal Facial Recognition via Kinect Sensors

Biometrics is a key technology that can help identify friend from foe and deny the enemy anonymity he needs to hide and strike at will. Biometrics is defined as a measurable biological (anatomical and physiological) and behaviour characteristics that can be used for automated recognition [1]. The military needs reliable methodologies to enable it to identify people who are or might be national ...

Special Workshop on Information Privacy

The Special Workshop on Information Privacy will consist of a one-day presentation of high-quality research in the area of information privacy. It will include 1) invited papers by scholars from participating schools and 2) submitted papers. The day will include four sessions, each of which will feature two paper presentations by authors and ample time for discussion facilitated by a designated...

Apocrine Metaplasia in Intraductal Papilloma with Foci of DCIS: A Friend or Foe?

Malignant papillary neoplasms of the breast comprise a number of microscopically distinct lesions, where apocrine metaplasia is commonly found in papillomas compared to other papillary lesions including papillary carcinomas. However, association of apocrine metaplasia in papilloma with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) is not very well defined. The lesions with apocrine metaplasia are not only di...