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NCP: Privacy Villain of the Week: DARPA's HumanID at a Distance
by J Plummer 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Privacy Villain of the Week: DARPA's HumanID at a Distance The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency <http://www.darpa.mil/> has been one of the more fruitful government agenies in the past, its DARPAnet computer network being the foundation for what would become the Internet some years later. That is why reading about what this outfit is up to now can at times be disheartening. One such project is the HumanID at a Distance program, which aims to move beyond face-recognition technology and purportedly identify people by the way the walk. The idea here is that by measuring with video or (clothes-penetrating) radar the distance between, say, 17 different points on the body <http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/images/gait1.jpg> and measuring how these points move in relation to one another, a person can be positively and uniquely identified. This "gait technology" by itself is neutral of course, just as technologies such as a gun or a needle or or the banging of flint against stone. The problem here arises in that by funding such research, the government is pushing a technology on society that it has not freely accepted through the voluntary choices made in the market. A patina of legitimacy is unfortunately added to such technologies when they have the imprimatur of the state behind them. Even when the lead researchers on the project issue a press release <http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/GAIT.htm> with conflictuing estimations of accuracy ranging from .0001% to 95%. These selfsame researchers go on to tout the tech for use "around federal buildings" and in airports (which have now had their security systems completely taken over by the federal government). The airport situation is particularly troubling, in that it would be installed after the new Transportation Security Agency has complete control of all US airports. Adding the full-body radar scans that are part of a gait-biometric system to their CAPPS database incorporating name, Social Security number, credit history, travel history, etc., is a small step. This would be another peice of information in a federal database left wide open to abuse by not only those with official and unofficial clearance but anyone who bribes or hacks their way in. In addition, the potential for false positives seems to be overwhelming. Even if the number is closer to 95% than .001%, what happens when a heavy piece of luggage and lack of sleep slumps the shoulders enough to peg a weary traveler as a dangerous terrorist? Is he or she strip-searched and detained by armed federal employees while the plane to his mother's funeral leaves for the other coast? This kind of technological forcing, especially in situations controlled by the state, puts individuals in a position where, due to lack of adequate societal knowledge, individuals are unable to control the kind of information being disseminated about themselves. Identification technology has its uses. But when government forces it on everyone, from a Social Security number onward, the long-term effects are net negative -- oversurveillance , undersecurity, identity theft, etc. DARPA scientists and their colleagues at places like Carnegie Mellon <http://hid.ri.cmu.edu/> and Georgia Tech may be taking great strides forward -- but do they recignize where to, or why this may earn them the title of Privacy Villain of the Week? The Privacy Villain of the Week and Privacy Hero of the Month are projects of the National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group. Privacy Villain audio features now available from FCF News on Demand. <http://www.fcfnews.com/> For more information on the NCC Privacy Group, see www.nccprivacy.org or contact James Plummer at 202-467-5809 or jplummer(a)consumeralert.org . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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NCP: Privacy Villain of the Week: DARPA's HumanID at a Distance
by J Plummer 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Privacy Villain of the Week: DARPA's HumanID at a Distance The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency <http://www.darpa.mil/> has been one of the more fruitful government agenies in the past, its DARPAnet computer network being the foundation for what would become the Internet some years later. That is why reading about what this outfit is up to now can at times be disheartening. One such project is the HumanID at a Distance program, which aims to move beyond face-recognition technology and purportedly identify people by the way the walk. The idea here is that by measuring with video or (clothes-penetrating) radar the distance between, say, 17 different points on the body <http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/images/gait1.jpg> and measuring how these points move in relation to one another, a person can be positively and uniquely identified. This "gait technology" by itself is neutral of course, just as technologies such as a gun or a needle or or the banging of flint against stone. The problem here arises in that by funding such research, the government is pushing a technology on society that it has not freely accepted through the voluntary choices made in the market. A patina of legitimacy is unfortunately added to such technologies when they have the imprimatur of the state behind them. Even when the lead researchers on the project issue a press release <http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/GAIT.htm> with conflictuing estimations of accuracy ranging from .0001% to 95%. These selfsame researchers go on to tout the tech for use "around federal buildings" and in airports (which have now had their security systems completely taken over by the federal government). The airport situation is particularly troubling, in that it would be installed after the new Transportation Security Agency has complete control of all US airports. Adding the full-body radar scans that are part of a gait-biometric system to their CAPPS database incorporating name, Social Security number, credit history, travel history, etc., is a small step. This would be another peice of information in a federal database left wide open to abuse by not only those with official and unofficial clearance but anyone who bribes or hacks their way in. In addition, the potential for false positives seems to be overwhelming. Even if the number is closer to 95% than .001%, what happens when a heavy piece of luggage and lack of sleep slumps the shoulders enough to peg a weary traveler as a dangerous terrorist? Is he or she strip-searched and detained by armed federal employees while the plane to his mother's funeral leaves for the other coast? This kind of technological forcing, especially in situations controlled by the state, puts individuals in a position where, due to lack of adequate societal knowledge, individuals are unable to control the kind of information being disseminated about themselves. Identification technology has its uses. But when government forces it on everyone, from a Social Security number onward, the long-term effects are net negative -- oversurveillance , undersecurity, identity theft, etc. DARPA scientists and their colleagues at places like Carnegie Mellon <http://hid.ri.cmu.edu/> and Georgia Tech may be taking great strides forward -- but do they recignize where to, or why this may earn them the title of Privacy Villain of the Week? The Privacy Villain of the Week and Privacy Hero of the Month are projects of the National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group. Privacy Villain audio features now available from FCF News on Demand. <http://www.fcfnews.com/> For more information on the NCC Privacy Group, see www.nccprivacy.org or contact James Plummer at 202-467-5809 or jplummer(a)consumeralert.org . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by Major Variola (ret) 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

t 11:21 PM 10/24/02 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > >I am a really big fan of "Buffy". Seek professional help. but my experience with downloading TV shows suggests >that piracy is working better than ever. This wasn't piracy, it was time-shifting. You, as an American with a TV, could watch the show at X; you as an American can save it and watch it at Y, too. The videotape-timeshift-legal-decisions didn't say anything about VHS vs. BETA vs. DiVX formats. You could put it on Hollerith cards but the greens would be pissed. The fact that part of your video system is distributed in a few million homes should be irrelevent.

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25 Oct '02

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Re: more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]
by David Howe 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

at Friday, October 25, 2002 6:22 PM, bear <bear(a)sonic.net> was seen to say: > The implication is that they have a "hard problem" in their > bioscience application, which they have recast as a cipher. The temptation is to break it, *tell* them you have broken it (and offer to break any messages they encrypt in it just to demonstrate) but dont' tell them how you did it. That would probably be even more fustrating for them than the problem was :)

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Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by Major Variola (ret) 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

At 02:37 AM 10/25/02 +0100, Adam Back wrote: >Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio >station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to >insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the >commentary, only automated and with open APIs for the "load and play >this CD track" instructions so people can hook it up to whatever is >convenient to them. Such a station resembles an editor who suggests articles by giving a pointer, e.g., ISBN, Journal cite, or URL. Some editors (like talk-free radio stations) may not even provide commentary, but their subscribers value the information implicit in their choices. [One listens to radio, follows editors' pointers, etc. because one desires fresh bits... and a "good" Editor increases the probability that you will encounter fresh bits you like. Even unintentional Editors are valuable: Using KaZaa, one can scan all of other nodes' shared files; finding a user with content you like (tastes like yours) via a regular search often yields a cache of good content.] Version 2 of the BackBox should handle video, with DVD/TiVo++ URIs, too.

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internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees
by Adam Back 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Re. the recent rapacious "broadcast" royalties imposed on internet radio in the US, it occurs to me it wouldn't be that hard to do the following and it would probably avoid the royalties even under the current imbalanced IP laws: - have the station broadcast it's own content (commentary) - have the station broadcast song titles, song authors, CDDB serial numbers - the user would use third-party software capable of playing the recommended track, such as: - coincidentally owning the CD and having the CD in a CD jukebox - owning (or not) the CD and having a mp3 rip of the track on hard disk - queueing the track for download via kazaa examples of the last are the morpheus plugin for winamp (I think it was morpheus that had such a plugin -- though it is probably no longer supported with the morpheus protocol switch). For performance reasons the station could even pre-queue the tracks during their commentary and then trigger the start of play after the track has had some time to be selected by the jukebox / streaming buffer fill from kazaa. Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the commentary, only automated and with open APIs for the "load and play this CD track" instructions so people can hook it up to whatever is convenient to them. Adam

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