Should our body be considered a form of property to government

Should our body be considered a form of property to government

Michael (Micha) Shafir

The great founders of modern capitalism and modern liberalism did not actually intend that the free market’s principles of contract and consent transform every feature of human life include the immolation of a human basic right to control his or her own body and privacy. However, it is increasingly clear that we may be in the middle of just such a transformation.

Biometric Collection

There is an argument that the human body lineaments’ database (biometric collection) is an “excellent” tool for solving crime, does this amount to losing a basic human right for dignity and privacy of innocents? It is essential for biometric technology to be used in a manner that does not compromise human privacy or dignity, in both public and private sector applications. "A man's home is his castle," stated English Common Law. What about a man’s own body case identifiers? Can human body lineaments derived from an individual’s unique characteristics be considered as a “government’s castle”? The government has no right into man’s life, his thoughts, or his body. In the field of human dignity, what is needed are clear ethical guidelines that would define who has rights to the human organs lineaments after they removed from a living person in the course of biometric enrolment. Do my own identifiers (body, dignity privacy) can become a governmental property? Should man’s body lineaments be considered a form of property? Why then governments cut off humans body identifies’, and stripped off their privacy and dignity, storing them in a “National Human Organs Datasets” for roundup, or future snoop, surveillance or useless comparisons? This can consider compulsory as a violation of human rights and privacy. Biometric technologies do not just involve collection of information about the person, but rather information of the person, intrinsic to them.

Today’s Biometric technologies can easily, be configured to give the subject the ability to control access to his or her own body lineaments, to safeguard the integrity of his or her personal information. The solution should not link, write, or bind any unique information to an external device, smart card, or network of any kind, and to protect his or her privacy, dignity and identity against theft or misappropriation and most important: Be able to neutralize the obligation requirements for trust by third parties.

The current invasive Biometric authentication methods present a serious threat in a manner that many people regard it as demeaning. The Biometric scheme represents the kind of closed-minded society that the Soviet Union created, and which the free world decried.

The Biometrics Collection is a Paradox or a Tail chasing:

Current biometric authentication requires a comparison between a registered or enrolled biometric sample against a newly captured biometric sample that require huge, expensive and inefficient distributed databases keeping biometric samples. Getting so much information that you'll never make any sense of it. Even, Robert A. Mocny, Director, US-VISIT Program, Department of Homeland Security, admits: “We have built our database to be about 90 million fingerprints, and it's now time for us to transition from the two to the 10 fingers”… “As the database grows in size we need more information”… paradox indeed…

The subject is always carrying his biometrics with him, why then unique biometrics information, should be collected and stored in datasets or smart cards, or other external devices, in order to make it useful? 

 
The ethical case against Biometrics Collection:

According the basic human dignity law: “There shall be no violation of the life, body or dignity of any person as such”: Human Dignity transcends any social order as the basis for rights and is neither granted by society nor can it be legitimately violated by society.

As free individuals, living in a free country, we have the right to control our own body identifiers and our own physical characteristics. "We are not animals, we are human beings - our body and its lineaments are NOT a blob of tissue” … Biometric is referring to ‘Vital body organs measurement, derived from the Greek words Bio (life) and Metric (to measure). From a democratic and legal point of view, an individual has the right to manage his own bodily identifiers (body, dignity, markers, privacy) or retained intrinsic body cutoffs, as the conceptual basis for human rights.

Biometrics should enhance rather than conflict with individual privacy and dignity. As stated by the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): “Human beings should never be treated as merely means to an end” - Namely, ‘Human beings are already the purpose, they must not be sacrificed to fulfill other purposes’. 

Airport X-Ray Scanners:

Mind Having Your Naked Body Photographed And Stored in a Federal Database?

X-Ray technology proposed to be used in airports in which the machine will be able to see Inside your body!... 
"Unless you're an exhibitionist", you as an innocent human being, might object to the new backscatter X-Ray machines now beginning to be used, which give your screener a naked image of your body. These images are nothing compared to how detailed the images really are. These are the photos that are toned down for the media to use for the general public. The Real images are so highly detailed that they can actually see the pores on your skin! If that isn't enough, every image that is taken of everyone who passes through these x-ray scanners will create a biometric digital image of your body and map it just as they do with digital biometric face scans. Your biometric "digital thumb print" of your body will then be entered into a federal database where it will be added to your record and stored permanently. Do you mind having your body organs lineaments or your naked body photographed and digitally stored by the government? ...