Re: 2015 SCJ 177

From: Dhiruj Rambaran <dhiruj_at_shoponline.mu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:42:50 +0400

Hi all,

In European countries biometic information is kept. To hold a swedish
passport (as one example) they take a retina scan.

I believe the issues with the gathering and storing of biometric data is
not really a question of privacy (in my opinion) but a question of which
country (their levels of corruption, adherance to human rights etc)
wants to implement this? Also it's a question of 'where' this data is
kept, how it's kept and who has direct access to this.

I am absolutely for the collection of biometric data. I think it's a
huge crime deterrent/detector and, especially in a country like
Mauritius, it would be key and instrumental for fantastic
e-government/education/public transport/ health services etc. The sky is
really the limit when building such data solutions for the entire
country, making everything easier for everyone.

The only reason I was against NIC biometric in Mauritius was because of
how Ramgoolam's bulldozed it to the people, threatening us (already
violating our human rights) and, of course the huge corruption level in
this country (as we see in his safe).

So, first Mauritius must lower it's corruption rate, respect human
rights and then we can look at the technicalities and issues on how to
bring in e-governance.


Dhiruj


On 05/06/2015 00:50, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Ish,
> At 12:18 04-06-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I could not ever find technical specs of such
>> fingerprint readers. Let's take it this way, will there be a
>> difference between the reader used by a hospital and that used by an
>> insurance company? I have said in the past
>
> There would not be a difference in the reader used by a hospital and
> one used by an insurance company.
>
>> You mean to say the mentioned services cannot exist with biometrics?
>
> No. It is not possible for me to say whether the services can exist
> or not without analyzing the problems. Some of the problems are
> outside my area of expertise. There are also some questions related
> to privacy which are much more difficult to answer as some legal
> aspects are unclear.
>
>> Is the missing privacy policy on this government owned website a
>> minor issue?
>
> It is not even an issue as nobody has complained about it.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 05 2015 - 05:43:13 PST