Technocracy and expert controversy of Taiwan’s e-Passport policy decision-making
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Liang, Yu-Ching
Abstract
In recent years, credentialing, positive identification, and biometrics become increasingly important. Promoted as a means to combat terrorism, to increase security, and to boost efficiency, biometrics is being considered, developed, and deployed in corporations and government agencies. However, these developments create new opportunities as well as new risks.iometric passport (e-Passport) will be adopted in Taiwan in 2008. Comparing with traditional passport booklet, new one has changed with the integration of new materials: integrated RFID antenna, holder page, cover page, and electronic chip.FID chips are passive, and broadcast information to any reader that queries the chip, so critics are worrying that new passports would reveal a person’s identity without his/her consent or even his/her knowledge. According to these reasons, technocrats, scholars, and human rights groups’ opinions on Taiwan e-Passport policy are varied. Therefore this paper is intended as an investigation of Taiwan e-Passport controversy by interviewing those three groups. hapter 2 focuses on historical ground of authoritative technocrats in Taiwan. Chapter 3 explores issues surrounding the measurement, history, and evaluation of biometrics. In Chapter 4, participants from government, academic research centers, and human rights groups discuss the plan of biometric passport. In Chapter 5 and 6, the author analyzes Taiwan technocrats’ ideology and eventually leads to the conclusion that America lays lots of stress on Taiwan passport policy.owever, despite recent advances in biometrics, it is critical not to loose sight of the fact that these technologies are merely tools. It is because of their relatively new role in government, they have the potential to introduce new problems that a society hasn’t yet anticipated, including technical challenges and privacy debates. Whether the discussion is focused on credentialing, or privacy, and legal issues, it all comes down to one critical factor: the people, citizens, and government officials in a dialogue can shed light on the issues, hear opinions that express core truths, and earn the trust that is imperative to the success of initiatives that put us all at the edge of a new frontier: the convergence of identity, technology, security, and privacy.
Subjects
biometrics
biometric passport
e-Passport
risk
social risk
technocrat
SDGs
Type
thesis
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