The fight against the biometric database may have failed in the main goal of abolishing the database, but it has recorded a significant achievement of changing the public consciousness regarding privacy, information and biometric information. Prof. Karin Nahon, Head of the Data, Administration and Democracy Division at Reichman University and one of the leaders in the struggle, who also petitioned the database to the High Court, for the judges’ omissions, the mistakes of the database’s opponents, the change it made to decision makers and lawyers Of the reservoir, and the fruits which he also enjoys in the years to come.
“We are in an interesting period in terms of democracies in the world. More are seeing the ability to make use of artificial intelligence and big data for data processing,” she says. “Understand the meaning of another statistic and another statistic. At the beginning of the struggle they would say to me, ‘But what do you want? You are on Facebook.’ They did not understand the difference between biometric data and just information. Ours is growing, and our personal autonomy is small. ”
Prof. Nahon says that “the struggle against the reservoir was a wake-up call that requires a deeper consideration of the essential questions: when are ready to have such reservoirs, who uses and approaches it. All these questions are more understandable to decision makers, and that is the greater fruits of this struggle. To create public pressure and a public agenda that says we want and demand that these big questions be answered. “
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