The Forensic Use Of Bioinformation
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The Forensic Use of Bioinformation
This report considers whether current police powers in the UK to take and retain bioinformation are justified by the need to fight crime. The principle of proportionality is used as the basis for a number of recommendations [made] to policy makers ...
Bioinformation
From DNA sequences stored on computer databases to archived forensic samples and biomedical records, bioinformation comes in many forms. Its unique provenance – the fact that it is 'mined' from the very fabric of the human body – makes it a mercurial resource; one that no one seemingly owns, but in which many have deeply vested interests. Who has the right to exploit and benefit from bioinformation? The individual or community from whom it was derived? The scientists and technicians who make its extraction both possible and meaningful or the commercial and political interests which fund this work? Who is excluded or even at risk from its commercialisation? And what threats and opportunities might the generation of 'Big Bioinformational Data' raise? In this groundbreaking book, authors Bronwyn Parry and Beth Greenhough explore the complex economic, social and political questions arising from the creation and use of bioinformation. Drawing on a range of highly topical cases, including the commercialization of human sequence data; the forensic use of retained bioinformation; biobanking and genealogical research, they show how demand for this resource has grown significantly driving a burgeoning but often highly controversial global economy in bioinformation. But, they argue, change is afoot as new models emerge that challenge the ethos of privatisation by creating instead a dynamic open source 'bioinformational commons' available for all future generations.
Ethics and Policy of Biometrics
Author: Ajay Kumar
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2010-04-23
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, ICEB 2010, held in Hong Kong, during January 4-5, 2010. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Privacy Protection and Challenges, Legal Challenges, Engineering and Social Challenges, Ethical and Medical Concerns, Policy Issues and Deployments in Asia, Challenges in Large Scale Biometrics Identification.