Anne Toomey McKenna

Biometrics is something that should be really broadly defined.

So a way to think about biometrics are really measurable characteristics about you.

And those measurable characteristics could include things like health data.

right?

Your particular heart rate.

What is your heart rate variability?

Your biometrics could be not just your eyes and particular features of your retina to identify you from a retinal scan or to be able to identify you from the shape of your face, but

Your particular pattern of walking, right?

Your gait or the way you hold your phone.

So your phone is collecting biometric data of all kinds, right?

Not just your image.

And I think that's an important thing to remember because so much of the attempts by states to protect biometric privacy really go to facial recognition privacy.

But I think it would be helpful to think of biometrics more broadly, right?

Right.

Not just your face, not just your fingerprint, but really all of these idiosyncratic or very specific measurements that reflect things about you and make it identifiable to be you.

Yeah, we live in an ecosystem of surveillance with all of our smart devices.

But it's also everything around us to participate in modern society is to consent to pervasive and persistent surveillance.

Your car is loaded with sensors.

It's collecting your weight.

You sit on the seat.